Article: Lethal superstitions

There's always a market for fantasy, oddities and ETs. Reality is never enough and science, with its revelations, fails to pep-up the imagination of people aching for a fifth dimensional happening.

Superstition, though, is a different thing. Over the centuries our wildlife has paid the penalty as omens, symbols of Satanic power, or other victims of human inner-ugliness that required sacrificial innocents.

Passed from generation to generation the so-called 'old wives tales' were accepted, unquestioned, as truth. This spelt trouble and suffering for animals and birds like the skylark. In the past they were put in cages and blinded with red hot needles in the belief that this produced a sweeter ...

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