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All the silver benefits indicated above impress me.

Other metals such as platinum and white gold impress me.

Is it possible that their coloring indicates the same benefits or is it silver being silver, not being a white metal, that initiates all the benefits that it impels?

The sorrel, potato, egg soup appeals to me as most delicious.

But what is "single" cream?

Pre-electronic times compelled sketching or writing materials for in-the-moment, on-site remembrances.

Electronic times do not eliminate doing likewise audio-, digital-, virtual-, visual-ly even as they perhaps eliminate no above-mentioned traditional equivalents.

Your answer three comment boxes down figures this walk as favoring about two weeks.

Might technology such as cell phones and laptops operate along these trails or might traditional means, such as journals and sketchbooks, prevail?

Your score and your summary that suggested such a score invite investigating this episode if not the entire series.

The indication of ecology- and efficiency-conscious vampires as perpetrators is quite interesting.

Vampires might not mix with other life forms so might that perhaps mean not motivating someone, something else to munch on bones?

Thank you for your comments below, on May 4, 2024, in answer to my previous comments and questions.

The May 19 Pentecost meal that I described three comment boxes down did take place as such a crowd-pleaser, thanks to your recipes.

But do you have an exact recipe for Lambswool? My preference is a precise recipe even as the apple, cider, milk mix seemed nice (but undoubtedly perfect with your notes on how much how, what for, when, where, why ;-D)

Thank you for the Bram Brack recipe.

That recipe includes a dried-fruit mix, which involved apricots, cranberries and raisins in my realization five months ago..

What dried fruits might east-ponders (= British Isles-ers ;-D) generally, you and your family specifically, mix with the other scrumptious ingredients?

(That recipe was a crowd-pleaser in the Pentecost meal that was mentioned in my comment May 2, 2024, to your Irish Halloween Samhain Traditions wizzley!)

Veronica, Thank you for stopping by and visiting non-scary umbilical-cord rituals.

Me too, I find those rituals interesting even as umbilical cords flourish with so many nutrients. Might they find favor among invertebrate decomposers that volcanic-hardened subsoil perhaps furnishes?

Might such decomposers munch all liquid, all solid parts within 24 hours?

Perhaps, perhaps not!

Frank, I only know about European-fairy marches through William Shakespeare's and Felix Mendelssohn's (Feb. 3, 1809-Nov. 4, 1847) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Your introducing fairy marches interests me even as October is a month of the fairy-ringed mushrooms here!

What else might be known -- beyond Shakespearean plots and Mendelssohn music ;-D -- about European-marching fairies?

Thank you for posting this. You have given us westerly Europeans an insight into something completely unknown to us.

I am particularly interested in the umbilical chord rituals.

A fascinating piece of folk culture from thousands of miles away

Thank you for your positive comment and prescient questions.

The visual phenomena appears to be alternating rows of men and women, in battle dress but with chiefs, family-god symbols and priests -- and sometimes with such gods as Kane the ancestral god, Ku the war god, Kanaloa the underworld and the voyager god, the agriculture and Lono the peace god -- a few inches above ground and water surfaces.

The huakai po Nightmarchers associate with ancient burial, habitation and temple sites that also assume assurance into the afterlife, spiritual world.

English-language attributions of huakai-po Nightmarching as among Hawaiian-island cultural beliefs go back to the Cook arrival Sunday, Jan. 18, 1778. No one nevertheless links any huakai po Nightmarchers to the cartography-izing, exploring naval officer (Nov. 7, 1728-Feb. 14, 1779) perishing there a little under 13 months later.

An interesting article, Derdriu. What visual phenomena have been seen? Is there any affinity to the tradition of fairy marches in parts of Europe?

The second subheading, Drying chilies in the oven, mentions moving stem and perhaps seeds from a grease-proof lined baking tray.

Might there be something culinary, something horticultural for seeds and stems that otherwise might be mixed with landfill trash?

Razorbill seabirds are known to me from my Iceland days.

Have you seen razorbill parents with their one fledgling on the latter's first flight?

It's so impressive the rapport between the trio and between them and other parents and young 'uns instituting similar first take-offs and landings!

The four wall-clock product lines appeal me.

But my clicking their links gave me a "phishing" warning message all four times.

Is that "phishing" possibility removable?

It depends on the walkers and their needs and preferences. So there is no set of statistics which I could use to answer your question. Sorry.