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From: "E. McCreery"
> I could certainly see myself experimenting with ashes and a pot of corn.
Good ideas. Very possible that curiosity began what "magic" completed.
When I got to thinking about it the other day I realized how "magical" the
corn would have looked, swelling to double/triple its normal size before
their very eyes. Sort of like a loaves and fishes thing, the corn would
appear to multiply and there be much more of it to eat.
Theola