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31 January 2006 * Volume 12
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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology"

Beste Ron,

Regarding "dalamaska", I'd like to point you in this direction:

http://traditie.skynetblogs.be/?date=20050228&number=1&unit=months

The article tries to explain how masks ("moembakkes" in Brabantish) were 
used according to pagan belief. The entrance is here: 
http://traditie.skynetblogs.be/ and the website is managed by a Brabantish 
"Asatru"-association.

Greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2006.01.31 (02) [E]


On 01/02/2006, at 2:12 AM, <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com> wrote:
  He removed the large slab on top and found an earthenware jar, inside 
which

  was a toad stuck through with 12 iron needles

  Scratched on the clay pot were the words " Nany Roberts"

Toad therapy was still around as late as the 1960's.
During my Ghanaian stint an African nursing sister who had studied at 
London's prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital told me how a man was scheduled 
for
an eye operation in a few days. Old codger in the next bed kept telling him 
it was not necessary and he could cure him. On the morning of the scheduled 
operation
my friend entered the ward and saw unauthorised screens around the patient's 
bed and the adjacent old codger's bed empty. Pulling aside the screen she 
saw codger
dripping stuff from a jar into patient's eyes. She dragged him out and 
checked the jar which contained urine with a toad in it.


Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia

Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us

Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us

Robert Burns

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From: Heather Rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2006.01.31 (02) [E]


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>>From what time period was the find?<

It was thought to be late 19th or early 20th century!

But then things lingered long on Anglesey.

I saw in the ruins of a derelict house the patterns made on the hearth
stone with nettle juice in an attenmpt to stop witches coming down the
chimney. The house must have been abandoned for over 30 years but the
patterns were so old and engrained that they were able to be seen.

The Royal Charter was lost off Moelfre on Anglesey in the 19th century,
laden with golden sovereigns, minted in Australia. The excise men had a
hard job recovering the £1,000s of pounds that were washed ashore.

I was told by a neighbour about a certain large farm that was up for sale;
"You'll never be short of gold if you live there"

I discovered later that the farm owned the 'wreckers' rights' to the shores
around Moelfre and that on 1st May  each year a small pile of sovereigns
would be found outside the kitchen on the threshold in payment for the
rights of salvage!

I wonder whether those rights carried on once it was sold away from the
local family who had owned it for generations?

Heather

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From: Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2006.31.01




To Gabriele:

What relief. Just a yeast infection, curable with relative ease.

On the downside, this will mean that you must call off your illicit affair 
with the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

Arthur 

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