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Woods became special to me as a child talking and walking through the city sunken gardens. My first words in fact became "tree sycamore."

So this entire wizzley and its four links at article end catch my attention. The latter exposes me to the lesser-known Babes in the wood (rather unsettling in its unmitigated, unrelenting darkness), The house in the wood and Little brother and little sister.

Is there any indication in any other version of Babes in the wood whether the hired killer meant to obtain food and whether he returned?

I think that our idiotic spell checker has been playing its silly games. I did not say Rochester, which is in Kent, but Ribchester, which is in Lancashire.

There were more instances of the recycling of stones in nearby buildings

St John of Damascus, in his sermon on the Dormition of Mary, said that she worked healings, and he had access to the traditions of the Palestinian church. But on the water into wine, all miracles are God's, though they may have human intermediaries.

The British Isles deer population feeds like the American deer population.

I have not heard of the presence of either of these moths or their equivalents in the BRITISH Isles.

Mullen is not usually eaten, but the seeds are toxic. Leaves and flowers may be eaten.

No. There is almost nothing we know about Judas.

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Does Christian tradition give us a family history of Judas in terms of ancestors and of birth and extended family relatives and of possible wife and children?

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Online sources consider mullein soil-decompacting with its long taproot loosening soil thereby aerate- and moisture-able. They also describe it as an ornamental, wild garden-friendly plant. They likewise feature it as herbal medicinal treatment of such minor inconveniences as colds and coughs.

Is mullein edible?

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Tent caterpillars (Malacosoma spp) advise Unitedstatesians of spring springing -- ;-D -- even as fall webworms (Hyphantria cunea) alert us to fall falling around us.

Both moths leave see-through or light white webbing on tree branches. Might there be equivalent signature moth presences -- other than Hyphantria cunea and Malacosoma, neither of which east pond-siders, unlike continental Europeans, might not have -- in the British Isles?

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A favorite miracle for me -- as much as I love music, such as Be Thou My Vision -- is Our Lady Mary at Isaiah-like quiet, soundless Knock.

Is Our Lady known for performing miracles in collaboration with others, such as her husband?

Would the miracle of water into wine be considered Jesus Christ's miracle or His and His mother's miracle?

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Unitedstatesian deer feed at any time of the day or night where their food source is stretched bit by bit over quite a distance or where there is light pollution or both.

Is the British-Isles deer population diurnal, nocturnal or both?

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Your answer references ruins nearby to a Lancashire inn at Rochester. Would there be any other recyclable stones or would they all have long been repurposed elsewhere?

They had paper on those years. Only 1917 was the problem. But the market died soon after because people had no more money for luxury.

These are: illustration from Tenant from Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte), caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and illustration from Garden of Paradise (H. C. Andersen).