Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

"Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "Paul Dormer" <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>
>> http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/nnj/GoughMap_large.jpg
>>
>> One thing the map does say about Scotland is that "Here there are 
>> many
>> wolves".  Apparently, the medieval bestiary considered the wolf the
>> beast of the devil.  What you should do if confronted by one was to
>> take off all your clothes and put them in a pile.  Stand on the pile
>> and knock two rocks together.  Taking off your clothes reveals your
>> sins to the animal, and the sound of the rocks summons the Apostles.
>
> Such things don't surprise me as much as people following 
> superstitions centuries into the age of science.
>
> Karl Johanson

This is a good and entirely rational *faith-based* response.
After all, who do you know that found it to fail?

Titeotwawki -- mha   [rasff 2008 May 11]