Watch the birdie

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at y...> wrote:
> snip>
> The Welsh are said to believe that an owl will call out to alert the 
> community to the loss of an unmarried girl's virginity. 
> In reality,the owl's just trying to avoid those hyped-up naked 
> farmers, whom you should have known better than to let anywhere near 
> the virgins.  
> 
> snip
> However, modern-day Scottish Muggles continue to consider it bad 
> luck to see an owl in daylight.  Several sources cite instances of 
> afternoon owl sightings closely followed by unpleasant incidents 
> involving a lot of Transylvanian cellulite and the outraged fathers 
> of deflowered virgins.
> 
> Talisman, who can now see that Book 6 will come in a plain brown 
> wrapper.


Well, I live less than a mile from the Welsh border and I have to report
a dearth of hooting owls. Either it's too soon or too late. And since
Candy Valley (a local trysting place) has the most animated shrubbery 
since Birnham Wood came to Dunsinane......

Scots Muggles who follow the old traditions tend not to wear trousers
anyway - I always did wonder why, now I know. There was/is a hell of
a lot of owls about, no doubt centred on Hogwarts. Mind you, it is rather
worrying that a traditional Scots expression is "Hoots, mon."
It does make you wonder.
Exciting lives, some people lead.

Kneasy