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Thunderstones (and Touchstones) in Asian Tradition
In Burma they are used as a cure and preventative for appendicitis. In Japan they cure boils and ulcers. In Malaysia and Sumatra they are used to sharpen the kris, are considered very lucky objects, and have been credited with being touchstones for gold. A touchstone is a small tablet of dark stone such as slate or lydite, used for assaying precious metal alloys. It has a
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Thunderstones in European Folklore
In Scandinavia thunderstones were frequently worshiped as family gods who kept off spells and witchcraft. Beer was poured over them as an offering, and they were sometimes anointed with butter. In Switzerland the owner of a thunderstone whirls it, on the end of a thong, three times around his head, and throws it at the door of his dwelling at the approach of
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A 12th century Bishop of Rennes asserted the value of thunderstones as a divinely appointed means of securing success in battle, safety on the sea, security against thunder, and immunity from unpleasant dreams
During the Middle Ages many of these well-wrought thunderstones were venerated as weapons, which during the “war in heaven” had been used in driving forth Satan and his hosts. Hence, in the 11th century the Byzantine emperor sent to the Holy Roman emperor a “heaven axe”; and in the 12th century, a Bishop of Rennes asserted the value of thunderstones as a divinely appointed means
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Greeks and Romans, at least from the Hellenistic period onward, used Neolithic stone axeheads for apotropaic protection of buildings including villas, military structures such as barracks, temples, and kilns
The Greeks and Romans, at least from the Hellenistic period onward, used Neolithic stone axeheads for the apotropaic protection of buildings. A 1985 survey of the use of prehistoric axes in Romano-British contexts found forty examples, of which twenty-nine were associated with buildings including villas, military structures such as barracks, temples, and kilns.
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Albanians Believed the Supreme Powers of Thunderstones Were Formed During Lightning Strikes
Albanians believed in the supreme powers of thunderstones (kokrra e rrufesë or guri i rejës), which were believed to be formed during lightning strikes and to fall from the sky. Thunderstones were preserved in family life as important cult objects. It was believed that bringing them inside the house would bring good fortune, prosperity, and progress to people, especially in livestock and agriculture,
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Humans have been interested in echinoid fossils (the fossilised remains of sea urchins) for millennia, considering them lucky and imbuing them with magical powers linked to their deities
A folk tradition in Denmark and southern England imagined sea urchin fossils to be thunderbolts, able to ward off harm by lightning or by witchcraft, as an apotropaic symbol. Another version supposed they were petrified eggs of snakes, able to protect against heart and liver disease, poisons, and injury in battle, and accordingly they were carried as amulets. These were,
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Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) Wiki
Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a large multimeric glycoprotein present in blood plasma and produced constitutively as ultra-large VWF in endothelium (in the Weibel–Palade bodies), megakaryocytes (α-granules of platelets), and subendothelial connective tissue
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Armour & Company (Bad Blood Featuring Factor VIII Product Factorate)
Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago’s most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America’s
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Did WHO Study Conclude That Natural Blondes Are Likely To Be Extinct Within 200 Years? – Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gone-blonde/ Evidently these things or things very like them have been published (here and elsewhere) since at least the time of the Civil War. This quote is said to be from an article dated 1890: The girl with the golden tresses is doomed, and within six hundred years blondes will be extinct. The fate of
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🌿 Frangelico (Hazel in a Bottle)
Frangelico is the modern, commercial echo of Hazel’s long cultural life; a sweet hazelnut liqueur from Piedmont, wrapped in a bottle shaped like a friar. The packaging leans hard into invented monastic folklore: a hermit monk named Fra Angelico, wild hazelnuts gathered in the hills, secret recipes whispered through centuries. None of it is historically
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