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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

V is for Vertebrae (Body Folktales)

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.

5 comments:

  1. The shortest ghost tale. He's going to have to embellish that tale for his children to make himself into the hero.

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  2. Jamie (jannghi.blogspot.com):
    Such a slim pickings letter--true of letters near the end of the alphabet.

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  3. Lucky for him that he hit that one spot.

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