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Ancient Astronomers will be a murder in the house. - Knives stay sharp longer once they have
“tasted” their owners blood.
Continued from Page 14 - To remove a birthmark, rub it with a duck’s

foot. (No word of whether it should be attached
The Big Horn wheel has been dated to to the duck.) POINTS TO PONDER
A.D. 1000-1400, and Moose Mountain to about
2,000 years ago. The markers - this time neat - Don’t throw out hair trimmings. If a bird uses
piles of stones - pick out important dates in the your hair for a nest, you’ll be prone to constant “Nothing will ever be attempted if all objections
sky: the summer solstice and the rising of the headaches. must be first overcome.” - Samuel Johnson
bright stars Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, and
Fomalhaut. There are lots of other medicine - Your best chance of recovering from being “To love and win is the best thing; to love and
wheels and similar constructions in North struck by lightning is to be buried up to your lose the next best.” - William Makepeace
America, many of which are so damaged that its neck in the ground. Thackeray
impossible to reconstruct their original
alignments. But since the positions of dawn and - Carrying St. John’s wort keeps the devil from “Nothing in life is to feared. It is only to be
the risings of stars have changed a little over coming any closer than nine steps away from understood.” - Marie Curie
the centuries, it’s possible to date the you.
construction of them (and all the others) by “Could a greater miracle take place than for us
accurate scientific methods. - The pains of childbirth can be lessened by to look through each other’s eye for an instant?”
untying all knots in the house and unbraiding - Henry David Thoreau
KEEPING AN EYE ON THE SKY the woman’s hair.
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
It’s mot surprising that great civilizations like that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or loved
the Egyptians and the Mayans could develop a - To cure a headache, rub your fingers under in spite of ourselves.” - Victor Hugo
kind of astronomy. What’s amazing is that your arms really hard and then smell them.
people from the Stone Age - or people still Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the
living Stone Age lifestyles - also had detailed - To be successful in all you do, carrying a bat’s courage to follow the talent to the dark places
knowledge of astronomy. Native Americans, heart with you at all times.
where it leads.” - Erica Jong.
nomads in the Sahara Desert, and even genuine
cavemen were doing the math and measuring - Break the shell of a boiled egg after eating it to
the angles. How many people today could build keep witches from traveling in it. “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to
die or when. You can only decide on how you
an astronomical observatory out of lumps of are going to live now.” - Joan Baez
rock? [] - A girl who eats chicken gizzards will have big
breasts.
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
STRANGE And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt
- To avoid bad luck after seeing an ambulance,
SUPERSTITIONS inch your nose until your see a black or brown them.” - The Dalai Lama
dog.
“The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the
- A newborn’s first sneeze is lucky. Before the imagination.” - Emily Dickinson
- A mole on the buttocks foretell death by
sneeze, the baby is under the influence of bad
hanging.
fairies, and the new born who does not sneeze “ It is not true that love makes all things easy; it
may become a warlock or witch. makes us choose what is difficult.” - George
- Swallowing young frogs whole will cure
Eliot
cancer.
- I she really a with? Drive a nail into her
footprint . If she returns to pull it out, she’s a “Hope awakens courage. He who can implant
If you leave the house wearing a fern, you’ll
witch. courage in the human soul is the best
lose your way and snakes will follow you.
physician.” - Karl Von Knebel
- Dropping an umbrella on the floor means there