Month: June 2014

To cure a person who is delirious from fever, a “fairy doctor” takes three oval stones, recites certain charms over them, and casts them in different directions, saying in Irish:—

“The first I throw away for the head; the second I throw away for the heart ; the third I throw away for the back.”

Excerpt From: Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917. “Traces of the elder faiths of Ireland; a folklore sketch; a handbook of Irish pre-Christian traditions.” London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and co., 1902. (via charlottesarahscrivener)

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.

You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.

Isaac Asimov (via meggannn)

Wanna bet?