This year, my A to Z Challenge theme is Body Folktales. Enjoy!
This one was more difficult than expected on a short amount of time, but I did rustle up one interesting story.
The vertebra (Iceland)
A farmer sees a ghost come into his backyard, and in fright he tosses away his pitchfork and runs. Later he returns, and finds a single vertebra pinned on the point of the pitchfork. He realizes that the ghost had been made by magic, using a single human bone - and hitting that one bone with an iron point (by lucky accident) dispelled the ghost.
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The shortest ghost tale. He's going to have to embellish that tale for his children to make himself into the hero.
ReplyDeleteJamie (jannghi.blogspot.com):
ReplyDeleteSuch a slim pickings letter--true of letters near the end of the alphabet.
Lucky for him that he hit that one spot.
ReplyDeleteA ghost with backbone!
ReplyDeleteI love the comic
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