SC - Fwd: Cooking Help

[Olwen the Odd]

Up here in Canada...we call them potatoe bugs (and we even spell it
right...grin)

Gyric (let me know when the american bashing gets too much...I won't really
stop, but it's nice to know....L)

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Re:manual de mujeres


> <snip> >Remedy for pain of the flank/midsection
> >> >      Take nine woodlice/cochineals of some that walk
> >> under
> >> >the orange trees that, in arriving to them, make
> >> themselves
> >> >ball-shaped (1).
> >...
> >> >
> >> >1: that roll up into balls when disturbed?
> >> Or possibly "that, when they are approached, make little
> >> balls of
> >> themselves" ?
> >>
> >
> >Or possibly, looking at this again, "that, when arriving
> >to/at them [the orange trees], make themselves into
> >balls-like things" -- perhaps something that causes burls?
> >
> <snip>
>
> Hi!
>
> Woodlice are sow bugs, "small crustaceans used in medicine".(Cassel's
> Spanish Dict.) "Any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans,
> chiefly of the genera Oniscus and Porcellio, commonly found under logs or
> stones and having an oval, segmented body." (American Heritage Dict.)
>
> We have them in NY/NJ.  If you touch them they curl up in a little ball, &
> you can play with them like marbles.
>
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/woodlice/photos/oniscus_asellus.html - a picture of 1
kind
> http://www.dryad.demon.co.uk/julies/woodlice.htm - Woodlice page
> http://www.homeoint.org/allen/o/onis.htm - homeopathy page using woodlice
>
> HTH.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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