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Article: Lethal superstitions
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- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2008
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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 ...