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The new year of 1922 preventing the dove of peace from flying away. Salting a bird's tail is a legendary superstition of Europe and America, and an English language idiom. The superstition is that sprinkling salt on a bird's tail will render the bird temporarily unable to fly, enabling its capture.
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
The clam will try to escape the salt by coming up out of its hole, at which point you can gently grab the shell and pull it out of the ground. Predators of Ensis directus other than humans include birds, such as the ring-billed gull ( Larus delawarensis ) in North America and the Eurasian oystercatcher ( Haematopus ostralegus ) in Europe, and ...
Ensis is a genus of medium-sized edible saltwater clams, littoral bivalve molluscs in the family Pharidae. Ensis, or razor clams, are known in much of Scotland as spoots, for the spouts of water they eject while burrowing into the sand, when visible at low tide. [2]
The tradition of molybdomancy is called kurşun dökme in Turkish (literally, "lead casting", "lead pouring") which is intended to help with various spiritual problems or predict the future. The rituals vary, but they involve pouring molten lead into water.
Then to pour a little salt on the wound they shoveled a 7-mill levy at us before they announced anything about closings. How many people would vote for that levy now? A lot of people spent a lot ...
Ferric sodium EDTA, also known as sodium ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetate, is a broad spectrum molluscicide used to kill snails and slugs and protect agricultural crops and garden plants, and in particular to eliminate infestations of Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. [1] [2] Chemically, it is a salt of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ...
"Most bars in San Antonio have containers to pour salt on side of bottles or rims of glasses and at most liquor stores and gas stations sell beer salt at the register." Texans take beer salt so ...