MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

Anyway, I've been sorting through photos these holidays and I've found a few I thought might go down well.

 

[BY Bob]

I am going to owe a lot of chicken tax on this one.

The Irish & Britons & Scotti all practised religious rites involving water. So you will find swords, daggers, shields, torcs broken & put in water as sacrifices to their god/esses. Sometimes you will find bodies, like the most famous Lindow Man. As areas dry they become bogs rather than lakes or pools or rivers. I can't give you the exact science but the minerals & salts tan the skin & preserve the bodies.

Lindow Man was probably a human sacrifice: young, well groomed, well fed, healthy [possibly a druid]. The contents of his stomach contained a burnt porridge mix. His hair had been trimmed with scissors. He suffered the 3`fold death [hence why he is considered a sacrifice].

You can look him up on~line & a famous Celtic scholar has written a whole book on what was discovered about him. It is interesting reading if you aren't too squeamish.

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I will have to read up on him. That sounds fascinating!

 

[BY Bob]

Hold on, hold on. I was all for memorizing the physical characteristics of chicken breeds and was coming along splendidly, and then you all started throwing all sorts of craziness at me - like Leghorns not being white or even necessarily having floppy combs, and now I am breed-skeptic!
To answer the question - in the 18th Century the Scots were amongst the tallest folk in Northern Europe but they have shrunk and are now shorter than the English. On average of course. I assume that is secondary to deprivation, diet etc. but I don't know.

Thanks. I find this post enlightening and helpful.

 

[BY Bob]

Yep! Ivy's egg has arrived along with another of Mary's.

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Some proof for @Shadrach post regarding molting hens laying eggs. Ivy has put that wives tail to bed.

 

[Ribh]

I will have to read up on him. That sounds fascinating!

This is the book if you are interested. Not all scholars agree with her analysis. I tend to because my study has incorporated belief systems as well as lifestyles & history. Right or wrong it is interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Druid-Prince-Anne/dp/0671741225

 

[MaryJanet]

Some proof for @Shadrach post regarding molting hens laying eggs. Ivy has put that wives tail to bed.

Good point!

 

[BY Bob]

This is the book if you are interested. Not all scholars agree with her analysis. I tend to because my study has incorporated belief systems as well as lifestyles & history. Right or wrong it is interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Druid-Prince-Anne/dp/0671741225

Thank you. This will make it much easier.

 

[BY Bob]

Anyway, I've been sorting through photos these holidays and I've found a few I thought might go down well.

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That is a special picture of Mary and Janet. Are those other 2 Sandy?

 

[MaryJanet]

That is a special picture of Mary and Janet. Are those other 2 Sandy?

Yes, she was a very accomplished photographic model. Not in Phyllis's league ("Vogue Chicken" covers), more like "Woolworths Autumn Chickenwear Catalogue"

 

[BY Bob]

Yes, she was a very accomplished photographic model. Not in Phyllis's league ("Vogue Chicken" covers), more like "Woolworths Autumn Chickenwear Catalogue"

You Crack me up.

It was great to see Sandy again.