LL-L 'Traditions' 2006.12.11 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 11 December 2006 * Volume 04
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From: dmahling at ACM.ORG
Subject: LL-L 'Traditions' 2006.12.11 (03) [E]

You wrote:

BTW: she also was very superstitious, and I find the same still today with
my relatives from the Lunenburg-area.
Very different here, in the marshlands. People here always had to calculate
the rules of the sea, e.g. the tides, the height of spring tide, with and
without the wind coming from a certain direction etc. They always knew: if
you don't build the dikes highly enough no ghost or God would save you from
being drowned! Additional the open artificial landscape doesn't give much
chances for 'trolls' and other mysterious creatures to hide themselves..

For the same reasons people here never have been very religious; their fight
against all types of constrained christianity, always hand in hand with
nobility and authority endured till the 19th century and still results in a
distinctive free thinking.

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

So, what about the "rational habit" of putting a dead body, preferably a
person, but a horse will also do, into the new dyke to appease the wights of
sea and land?

Dr. Dirk [Mahling]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Traditions

Hi, Dirk, and welcome to the List!

Just a couple of rule reminders for you and other newbies:

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Happy posting!

Reinhard/Ron

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