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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Sun Mar 2, 2014, 08:09 AM Mar 2014

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Tie a Red Thread

If you want your cows to be protected from witchcraft, tie a red thread around their tails.

I couldn't find a picture of this archaic practice as it has probably been abandoned for several hundred years. So I chose this painting instead.

Cow Skull with Red Thread. Acrylic on canvas 16" x 20" by Kellie Hill

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Tie a Red Thread (Original Post) My Good Babushka Mar 2014 OP

I think they were a little late on that cow... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #1

I want to be protected from witchcraft pintobean Mar 2014 #2

Here is my suggestion ~ In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #3

In other words... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #4

Right In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #5

Well, yours is prettier... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #6

And truly has a bit more of an impact because of the intent. In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #7

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)

1. I think they were a little late on that cow...

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 01:03 PM

Mar 2014

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

2. I want to be protected from witchcraft

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 01:10 PM

Mar 2014

but I don't have a tail. Does anyone have any suggestions?

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

3. Here is my suggestion ~

Reply to pintobean (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 01:25 PM

Mar 2014

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)

4. In other words...

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 02:50 PM

Mar 2014

I'm rubber and you're glue.

Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Right?

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

5. Right

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:00 PM

Mar 2014

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)

6. Well, yours is prettier...

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:01 PM

Mar 2014

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

7. And truly has a bit more of an impact because of the intent.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:15 PM

Mar 2014

Thought we may think this way at times
No self respecting practitioner would ever follow through with this.

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