THANK YOU!!!!!
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From: "Cathy Spude" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: cow's blood in floors


> OK, so I don't have documentation, but it does seem to be common knowledge
> here in Santa Fe that ox blood was mixed with clay to make the
> characteristic black-colored dirt floors of the adobe buildings from the
> 17th and 18th centuries. I'll check with my sources and find out whether
its
> fact or fiction.
>
> Cathy
>
>
> Catherine Holder Spude, PhD
> 7 Avenida Vista Grande #145
> Santa Fe, NM 87508
> 505-466-1476 home
> 505-913-1326 cell
>
> "Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you are standing outside the
> fire," Jenny Yates and Garth Brooks.
>
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> From: "Susan Walter" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:38 AM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: cow's blood in floors
>
> > June 28, 2008
> >
> > Hello All,
> > Working in San Diego Old Town, we are bedeviled by trying to tease out
> > fact from oral traditions...
> >
> > A current one we are dealing with regards the claim that cow's blood was
a
> > component of packed earthen floors.
> >
> > Long time residents of Baja that we know deny this as a fact.  Their
> > packed earthen floors are solidified simply with water.  Other
historians
> > we have questioned have not found this blood addition was done.
> >
> > So,
> > 1.  Has anyone in the Histarch community heard of this?
> > 2.  Is there documentation of it?
> > 3.  Where and who documented it?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > S. Walter
> >
> > PS:  Then, when you are finished with bloody floors, there is the story
> > that roof tiles were shaped over maidens thighs...  And we can follow up
> > with documenting the number of girl's petticoats that were torn up to
make
> > American flags...  And, oh Lord save us from Ramona.
> >
>