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Interestingly enough, M. W. Barley in his classic "The English Farmhouse and Cottage" ( 1961) says "It must long ago been discovered that clay mixed with oxblood and ashes made a hard floor which might even be polished" (page 82). So the blood and clay story has precedents in the UK.
Silas Hurry
HSMC
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From: Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]>
> 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.
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