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John,
Sounds like a wonderful appeasement to the mice.
cp in bc
where we use electronic pest chasers with great success
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Leeke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: Good Luck Horseshoes?
> Cuyler writes:
> "Question: Does anyone know of a tradition of placing a Good Luck =
> Horseshoe below the threshold of a new building?
> "
>
> No, but I did learn a certian good luck doorway charm from the old Czech
> carpenters of northern Nebraska prairie settlement days. (Well, maybe I
> actually learned it from their sons.) :
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> You take a little handful of winter wheat from the shock, soak it in the
> stock tank for a few minutes and braid six stocks into a little plait with
> three heads of grain sticking out on each end, the whole affair is about
> 6-8" long. Then you say a little verse as every one at hand touches the
> plait and then you tuck it in the space above the door frame header just
> before
> you nail on the casings. Wish I could remember the verse. It was in Czech,
> and the only Czech I remember is what's for dinner.
>
> John Leeke
>
> --
> To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
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