tidbits cross time

In Devon, bringing snowdrops or violets into a house will cause the farmwife's hens to stop laying.

Although young girls served in Athena's rites, a priestess of Athena had to be a mature woman who had returned to abstinence. (Then, abstinence was required for many rites, and then abstinence from certain foods, though which ones depended on which rite.)

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