[at-l] - AT "spooks" - My Contribution

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

can ya smoke the stuff? :)

Felix wrote:

> Jim Bullard wrote:
>
>
>>They
>>
>>>seemed pretty clearly made by human hands, and were arranged in various
>>>patterns within the trailway.  They seemed unusual enough to me that I
>>>took a very huried (not very good) pic:
>>>http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aqg
>>>
>>>Anyone know if these are some kind of Wiccan pattern or something?
>>>
>>Plants naturally grow like that where UFOs have landed or where Felix has
>>walked.  ;)
>>
>
> I was afraid of that. I've looked the picture over and...it didn't take long
> to figure out what we have here...beyond a failure to communicate. These
> plants are of the vinca family. They are used in a ceremony known by many in
> the Wicca-Vinca family as 'The Tie-die Ritual". You either tie the plants
> together...or, die. The death isn't that bad, actually...though, fortunately,
> no member has ever NOT tied the vinca together and been exposed to such a
> death. I believe, and this is only speculation, that the act of covering the
> trail with the tied-together-plants is 'Northbound-specific'...as no
> southbounder has ever witness it. Most...and, it is important to realize that
> it is not ALL...Most Wiccans eat ice cream when they get home.
>
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