SC - Sausages

[Stefan li Rous]

At 7:34 PM -0700 7/6/99, Laura C Minnick wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Michelle "TJ" Brunzie wrote:
>
>> Then too, I've heard (note: I have NO proof of this!) that geese were not
>> considered meat in the MAs because they were thought to "hatch" from goose
>> neck barnacles...  Of course, anyone who raised geese would surely know
>> that wasn't the case!
>
>This is actually fairly well known- a particular kind of geese near the
>seashore was thought to have come from barnacles, and there was another
>kind that grew from trees.

As best I recall, these are both the same. The "natural history," I think,
involved a cycle that started on a tree, developed into a barnacle,
developed into a goose. As Laura says, it wasn't a belief about geese in
general, only about barnacle geese.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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