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   mark lewis to Anton Shepelev   
   Misinterpretation... 1.   
   29 Apr 20 09:21:11   
   
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     Re: Misinterpretation...  1.   
     By: Anton Shepelev to Ardith Hinton on Wed Apr 29 2020 12:32:48   
      
      
    AK>>>  Do you spit over your left shoulder? ;)   
      
    AH>> Sounds like quite a feat... I'm not sure I could pull that off.   
      
    AS> I think you misunderstand the instrction. The task is to hit the   
    AS> invisible devil that ever sittenth on thy left shoulder. It seems   
    AS> sufficient, for the purpose, to spit to the left and just a tad   
    AS> backwards -- in the eight o'clock direction.   
      
      
   i don't think she misunderstood it ;)   
      
      
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt   
      
   A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen.   
   [...]   
   The most common contemporary belief requires you to toss a pinch of the spilt   
   salt over your left shoulder, into the face of the Devil who lurks there.   
      
      
      
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