Spodomancy

Spodomancy

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Prediction of the future through the study of ashes

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In most IE languages the word for the Christian afterlife is the same as the word for "sky" - caelum, ciel, Himmel and so on. English, unusually, has two different works. Sky means only "blue thing up there". "Heaven" is derived from an obsolete past participle of "heave" - like eat/eaten.

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Interestingly another now-obsolete past participle of the verb "to heave" gives us the name of the town thought by the mediaeval English to be a virtual Paradise on earth, Hove.

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In most IE languages the word for the Christian afterlife is the same as the word for "sky" - caelum, ciel, Himmel and so on. English, unusually, has two different works. Sky means only "blue thing up there". "Heaven" is derived from an obsolete past participle of "heave" - like eat/eaten.

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The idea is clearly that the righteous dead, on the day of judgement, will not simply rise gently up to sit at the feet of God Almighty - they will be violently yoinked there. Heaven is where you are heaved into.

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As far as we can tell, St Cuthbert had a real soft spot for otters. riverbankscribe.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/c... Unlike St Peter, he had good reason. A stained glass panel in York Minster depicts St Cuthbert with fewer otters than you could possibly imagine (2)

riverbankscribe.wordpress.comCuthbert and the ottersThere’s a story about the Celtic hermit-monk, St Cuthbert, and a pair of otters, which is very endearing – but whose truth, until recently, I doubted. It’s told by Bede, his biogr…
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- Where are you, Pooh Bear? - I have no plans to call on you, Christopher Robin. So you take care to extend me the same courtesy. - Silly old Bear. You know I can't make that promise. - I wish we could chat longer but... it's eleven o'clock. Just about time for a little something. - Pooh Bear?

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This reminds me for some reason of being on a bus in Co Cork whose driver, on finding most of his passengers were Brits, decided to strike a blow for THE CAUSE by putting on an album of rebel songs but for some incomprehensible reason one of the accompanying instruments was a Swanee whistle

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