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Mouldy Bread

My grandmother used to tell me in Kythera,that I should always have in my pocket a piece of mouldy bread.When I asked her why,she replied that if I ever wounded myself,I should rub the mouldy bread on the open wound. Is...

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bats and superstition

Maybe we should have a heading on superstitions? Anyway, around our house in Michigan in the Fall, we used to get bats in our home on nights when the weather would start to cool in the evenings and the little bats would...

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Scorpion Oral Vaccine

Scorpions are one of the few venemous creatures on the island of Kythera. My mother Evangalia, (Angie) Poulos (nee Coroneos) told me that her mother Georgia (nee Mentes) used to ask her children to bring any scorpions th...

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Potatoes for burns

This remedy isn't specifically Kytherian, but I learnt about it on Kythera about 20 years ago, and have found it useful ever since. One of the world's most famous herbalists, Juliet de Bairacli Levy, lived down at Paliop...

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