Friday, 12 November 2021

SUPERSTITIONS: Many women in Ancient Britain kept acorns in their pockets to ensure...


 ...a forever youthful complexion.

AND additionally:

Acorns are amulets of protection from illness & disease & being struck by lightning!

4 comments:

  1. Who knew? I certainly didn't! Great bit of snipping!

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    1. I sure didn't. Thanks, again, to Ron's list for the youthful complexion superstition.

      The others I found out of curiosity.

      I must be WELL protected and aging backwards (LOL) as the towering mature Burr Oak Tree next door had what they call a "mast year" and dropped (most likely 10,000 acorns?? according to a website) and the squirrels who discovered it have now taken up residence around my house. I managed to sweep up, along with my neighbor, a very large bin of uneaten acorns that I am now throwing out handfuls of daily. Oh, wait a minute, that must be why they aren't leaving!! Ha ha ha. (Because at this point they picked the tree clean!)

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  2. Nice art Angie. Handy things the acorns. Watch out for those squirrels muscling in!

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    1. Oh yeah, they are waiting at my back door now...

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