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Re: KillieTalk Digest V3 #1068
Hi All
I realize and appreciate the tongue in cheekness of
this thread, but.......
having all too recently had to deal with some real
live
African witches and shamans and their sometimes fatal
effects on people,
I would rather give credit where it is due and just
continue to be in awe of the wondrous natural world
that we live in and thank our Creator for it. I have
seen dried out Northo holes in Kruger National Park,
and it is hard to believe that in a few months they
would hold fish. But it is so. Not fifty yards away
was several cape buffalo having a 'dust bath' in
another one.
Being part Cheyenne I have some knowledge of the
Native Indian shamans, and it is a far cry from the
witches of
Africa. I suspect also from the practitioners of
wicca.
For a fictional, but accurate, quote, I prefer Dr Ian
Malcom's line from "Jurassic Park", when he said
"life will find a way".
peace,
jake
--- Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There is no topic more appropriate
> to killie keeping than
> witchcraft. Those AKA member who were at the 1976
> convention or who read
> my report on the convention in the defunct "Aquarium
> News" may remember Jim
> Thomerson when asked how long to incubate SA annual
> eggs replied something
> to the effect that killie keepers use witchcraft to
> successfully raise
> annual fishes. It has stuck for many years, and if
> you ever saw what a 6
> inch thick slab of a dried out annual hole felt and
> looked like you would
> realize that we are so far away from the "real"
> thing . I had a slab sent
> to me and published pictures of it many years ago.
>
> It was so dry and hard you could
> drive nails with
> it. Roots, twigs, leaves grasses and mulch dried as
> solid as a brick. It
> is only the wonderful adaptation of these fishes
> that allows us the
> latitude to use peat as "damp as pipe tobacco" to
> stored eggs.
>
> What a wonderful craft so
> many witches practice
> ..........
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
> At 12:49 PM 4/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 4/1/1 11:29:43 AM,
> Owner-KillieTalk at AKA_Org writes:
> >
> ><< Al
> > We must keep the topic on Killies
> >How about yhe effect of witchcraft on egg hatching
> >Melanie >>
> >
> >The right incantations can be VERY helpful ;-)
> >
> >Sue
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