LL-L "Folklore" 2003.05.05 (01) [E]

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From: ezinsser at worldonline.co.za
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2003.05.04 (04) [E]

Hi Ron and all,

This interesting read made me wonder; when does a posting fall under the
'Folklore'
category and when is it lumped under 'Delectables'? :)

Talking of the weird and wonderful: My maternal great-grandmother,
Maria Botha, kept her
cut hair in her coffin-in-waiting in the cellar next to the dried
peaches and figs, so as
to prevent the hair becoming instruments of witchcraft. The idea was to
bury the hair with
her, but as it goes, the hair was forgotten and could only be buried
three weeks after the
funeral, and by special permit to open the grave. Brrr!

Groete,
Elsie Zinsser

> From: "thomas byro" <thbyro at earthlink.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2003.04.28 (08) [E]

> I recall that we ate horsemeat in my area.  common in all the lowlands areas?

> In walking to a friends house, I used to pass a thatch roofed farm
> house(with the usual horse heads on top).  The old woman who lived there > had pigtails
that virtually swept the ground.  It was said that she had > never cut
her hair in her
life.

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