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Subject:	Re: Architectural Concealment
From:	"Daria E. Merwin" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:20:51 -0400
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A smoked cat and an old shoe were hidden in a circa 1810 chimney at
the Terry-Mulford House in Orient, Long Island, New York, in a
supposed continuation of an English practice for protection.  For
more on this ritual, see pages 131-135 in

Ralph Merrifield (1987) The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic.
Amsterdam Press, NY.

Daria

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