Where Herdmen Go When They Die

From: Gary R Switzer (gswitzer@loop.com)
Date: Sat 06 Mar 1999 - 01:58:32 EET


>From: "Dougie Crawford" <dougiepunk@bigfoot.com>
>Subject: butchering herdmen

>>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
Aero Hobbies

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