>>As the
>>blood drains away, the animal's spirit becomes concentrated in its
>>tail. Once the bleeding has stopped, the butcher uses the hoe to dig
>>a pit in the blood-soaked earth and cuts off its tail with a single
>>stroke of the axe. The tail is buried with a prayer to speed the
>>animal's spirit to Mother Erithra.
>Sorry to be awkward but where does the spirt of a herdman become
>concentrated?
Why, in their thumbs Dougie, where else? =)
Actually, I can't see the thrifty Praxians letting perfectly good blood go to waste by letting it drain into the ground like that. I'm sure the Morokanth have a saying something along the lines of "we use every part of the herdman except the oink [grunt?]" that was the motto of Armour or one of the big Midwestern meatpackers.
I wonder if there is a Gloranthan equivalent of trichinosis? Otherwise pork (both domesticated and wild), bear and herdman could be eaten rare or even raw without danger.
Gary R Switzer
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