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Brandt’s Mower Shop Martin’s 5&10
Bridal Bouquet Merchandiser
Eicherly’s Mens Shop Mummau’s Firestone
Dauphin G.C. Murphy Co.
First F. Savings & Loan Myer’s Gift
Gehman’s Furniture Orange Owl
Greer’s Jewelry Lester E. Roberts & Son
Hess- Ulrich Rutt’s Appliances
Highlander Cleaners Sloan’s Pharmacy
Jack Horner Shoes Kenny Smith Sport Shop
J.B.Hostetter & Sons Ship Shape Collectables
Hostetter Hardware Stonebridge Farm
Hy-Lo Discount Center Tastee Freeze
Koser’s Jewelry Union National Bank
Lincoln Restaurant Western Auto
McComsey’s Sporting Center Yingst Auto Sales
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December 13, 1978
The history of stealing Kisses
To most people, mistle-
toe means an excuse to
steal a kiss at Christmas
time. But that’s just one of
many traditions that have
been associated with this
curious, parasitic plant,
according to the current
issue of National Wildlife
magazine.
“For centuries, people
all over the world have
considered mistletoe to be
a charm against disease,
witchcraft, and infertility,”’
says the magazine. Mistle-
toe superstitions probably
came about because of the
unusual and rather eerie
way in which the plant
grows.
Mistletoe flourishes in
clumps on the trunks and
branches of various hard-
wood trees, where it robs it
host tree of water and
nutrients. Often the host
tree is so weakened that it
dies. But since mistletoe
can produce its own food
when it needs to, the para-
site remains green and
moist.
Ancient peoples, unable
to explain how the plant
grows, imbued it with
supernatural powers.
Peasants in both England
and Japan believed that
barren women would be
able to concieve after
eating mistletoe. The
Walos of Africa attached
mistletoe leaves to their
bodies to ward off injury.
Swedes carved sword
handles from mistletoe
branches to keep witches
away, and other Europeans
wore mistletoe corsages for
luck in hunting.
Mistletoe isn’t a very
tasty plant. Although there
are more than a thousand
Farmers beat
government
[Reprinted from Conserva-
tion News -Ed.]
Farmers in Minot, ND,
are trying to beat the
federal dam builders at
their own game. Construc-
tion of a $100 million dam
is being considered to
protect farmers and the
town of Minot from fre-
quent flooding by the
nearby Souris River.
Some S0 farmers, un-
happy about the plan that
would flood their land
~ permanently, are going to
make it difficult for the
government to buy the land
needed for the dam.
According to Rural America
News Service, the farmers
have subdivided one acre
of the land into 4,840
parcels, one square yard
each. The postage-stamp
plots sell for $20.
At least a thousand plots
have been sold, and the
farmers hope the govern-
varieties of it, only one
animal—the Australian
mistletoe bird—eats only
mistletoe. Despite its bland
taste, it has often been fed
to sick people by doctors
who thought it had curative
powers.
French doctors used it as
a poison antidote, and a
British doctor advised it for
itch, sores, toothache, the
biting of mad dogs, and
snake bites.
Even as late as the mid
1700’s many physicians
thought mistletoe could
cure epilepsy. They be-
lieved that, since the plant
attaches itself so strongly
to its host tree, a person
who ate it would not be so
likely to fall down.
The plant was long for-
bidden in Christian
churches because of its
association with magic and
the rituals of the heathen
Druids, who hung it all
over their houses as a
refuge for wood sprites in .
winter. This old custom is
probably the origin of our
own use of mistletoe at
Christmas time.
The white-robed Druid
priests would gather
mistletoe with a golden
sickle on the sixth day of a
new moon. Ordinary people
weren’t allowed to collect
it, because the plant was
sacred.
A kiss under the misletoe
is a tradition that dates
back to Norse mythology.
Norsemen dedicated mistle-
toe to the goddess of love.
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In an earlier time, stealing a Christmas
kiss under the mistletoe was quite a daring
thing to do. Today, it's not so risque,
but the tradition is still going strong.
ment will hog-tie itself in
its own. red tape trying to
buy up each parcel.
Like this mistletoe harvester of a century ago, collectors
today must venture into the woods and gather the leafy
shrub by hand. The parasite is. not .commercially cultivated.
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