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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 06:48 AM Jun 2014

St. Michael's Well

At St. Michael's Well in Scotland, there was a seer, prognosticator, in the body of a fly (yes, the insect) to which the villagers put their questions and worries. An elderly villager lamented the decline of the generation who no longer sought their auguries from the fly and had allowed the well to become overgrown with weeds.
These kids today.

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St. Michael's Well (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jun 2014 OP
I'm sure I don't tell you often enough HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #1
Aw,thanks! nt My Good Babushka Jun 2014 #2

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
1. I'm sure I don't tell you often enough
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 08:46 PM
Jun 2014

that your posts are among the very most interesting on DU. Thank you -- I appreciate the humor and the history.

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