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In a message dated 1/22/01 9:25:24 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< What I find so interesting are the displays of emotion by those who
assert that dowsing does not and cannot work. >>
Brian, I am reminded of my query last year concerning an old Army hat and
boot found concealed in a bricked-in cavity inside a 1904 chimney. Over 9
days, I received 33 email messages or HISTARCH transmittals. Most of them
resoundly demined there could be any cultural explanation, other than a joke
on the owner of the hat and boot. Then I began getting messages from England
and Wales and Ned Heite, and the story unfolded of a pagan practice of hiding
shoes in chimneys to protect the occupants from evil spirits. As in the case
of dowsing, the archaeologists were loathe to suggest credibility to any
meaning. Maybe it is just American archaeologists who feel threatened by that
which they can not explain?
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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