<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 28 April 2007 - Volume 05<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_altkehdinger@freenet.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Jonny Meibohm <<a href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de">altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Beliefs" 2007.04.28
(04) [E]</span><br><br><div><span><font face="Courier">Beste
Lowlanners,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">under the header
'Beliefs', though a bit off-topic, I should like to add something (I only know
from hearsay!) about the natural, realistic background of all these
phenomenons.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">An old doctor of medicine
once told me that all of this warts' coming and going partly has to do with the
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">pH-value of the
skin.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">This value might change
with the age or living circumstances of a person but also can
be influenced by incidents of psychic relevance. He told me about
any studies at any university that proved that it is possible to quantify this
alteration, for example, if you impress a person deeply or even horrify
it/him/her.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">So, if you have got any
basical beliefe in 'charming' these magic actions of any mysterious old woman or
man could impress your mind so deeply that your skin will react. Perhaps this
way the warts will be withdrawed their basic life resources and they'll
die.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">Just worth a halfpenny
and even less for those who believe in these things...</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier"><span><font face="Courier">I've personly had warts for several
times in my live, and they came and went during the times without any believe or
magic, but without any medical treatment, too.</font></span></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier"><span></span></font></span> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<font face="Courier">Jonny Meibohm<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: </span><span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Beliefs" 2007.04.28
(04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron wrote re evil eye</span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">German: <i><span style="font-style: italic;">b</span>öser Blick<br></i>Dutch: <i>boze oog </i></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"><em></em> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> I had never made the
connection before! If someone has a squint, we used to call it
bos-eyed. I used the word only a couple of days ago and vaguely
wondered about its origin. Hey presto! you come up with the
answer!Thanks.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heather</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">PS isn't squinting meant to be beauty enhancing in some cultures?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Or is it a remnant of old power?<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_oneko@att.net" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">"Margaret Tarbet <<a href="mailto:oneko@att.net">
oneko@att.net</a>>" <<a href="mailto:oneko@att.net">oneko@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Beliefs"<br>
<br>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Jonny writes:<br><br>> Thanks!<br><br>Niets to danken! (If that's how one says it...I might be getting my languages mixed up)<br><br>...and Heather asks:<br><br>> Does anyone have any old rhymes for charming?
<br><br>Here's a pair of scots ones that we put a lot of faith in as weans:<br><br>To escape being made to help with laundry:<br>Rain, rain, cam doon dashin / Pit me mammy in a passion!<br><br>And to make rain stop so we could go out:
<br>Rain, rain, frae us gae / Come agin on washin day!<br><br>Perhaps Sussex had corresponding ones?<br></div><span class="sg"><br>Margaret<br><br>----------<br><br></span>From: <span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
Elsie Zinsser <<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span> <span id="_user_oneko@att.net" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
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Subject: LL-L "Language maintenance" 2007.04.27 (08) [E]<br><p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi all!</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And of
course, Margaret, these magical wart removing sessions 'worked'!<br>I had a wart
on my right hand, a loathing embarrassment when I have to do<br>piano
exams and ultimately when the first boy held my hand. So my grandmother<br>symbolically
bound a piece of white sewing thread over it and I had to walk down<br>her
backyard towards the rhubarb bush and chuck the thread over my shoulder.<br>It worked
like a charm; the virus antibodies kicked in the Thing fell off soon after.<br>Nobody
called her a witch though! :-) </span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Regards,</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Elsie Zinsser </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The verb in standard English would be 'charm', I think, though there are
several regional dialects in which the verb 'hex' would also be okay.
Phrases would be 'she charmed off/away the wart', or 'she can hex away
warts', and sometimes 'she's a wart doctor' (an encoded way of saying she's a
witch/wise-woman).</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
<font color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span>Margaret</span></span></font><br><br></div>
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