h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's about time I put you all out of your misery regarding last Friday's West Sussex folk remedy quiz - the Piebald horse thing, you remember? I listed twelve so-called folk remedies and asked you to work out if they were true or false.

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Those of you who had a go assumed that most of them were true, and you were right. In fact there was only one made-up remedy:

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2. Baldness: Carry a squirrel's tail in a pigskin pouch. As the tail withers, the hair returns.
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For the record, Dmitri and 2legs score 8, and Gnomon, for assuming they were all true, scores 11


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Serious problems remain, however. Curing whooping-cough by being repeatedly led backwards on a donkey while carrying hair cut from its neck-cross in a silk bag is, let's face it, not going to be available on the NHS anywhere outside Blackpool.

D'oh! I kept on meaning to reply when I had a proper keyboard to type with... And out never happened.

I enjoyed reading though.

Truth is stranger than fiction. And, as a folklorist, I am ashamed of my skepticism.

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three strawberries popped up on my convo list.