Very Interesting Read

[BigBo]

Originally Posted by Raven

legends that leaving cut onions around a dwelling could ward of the Bubonic Plague...


actually during the times of the bubonic Plague
was also a time of very DEEP fear of anything herbal
and anything related to witch craft ...SO cats became outlawed
as they were thought to be enchanted and possibly a witch was inhabiting their body to escape detection...
so that all cats were systematically killed by throwing them in a burlap bag that was weighted with stones and then tossed into the nearest river. Only the cats kept ultimately secret beneath houses survived.

that being said:

Along came the regular merchant trading ships as trade
was booming back then and when they tied up to the docks down the mooring lines the rats ran that had crossed the ocean in the hull of the ship.

Now these particular rats were loaded with fleas and "they carried the BUBONIC plague"....so that anyone bitten by the fleas contracted the plague and of course it was contagious as hell.

the ceremonious killing of the cats based upon paranoia and superstition created a situation where the rats had no natural predators to keep them in check and being "communal" they passed the fleas from one to another thus spreading the plague carriers.

In those days there were some men that would rob the dead and they wore a string of bulbs around their necks to "ward off the evil spirits" which was actually GARLIC that repelled the fleas from jumping on them and biting them giving them immunity.

it is from this custom of wearing garlic that this legend was Born.

Maybe I'm just a tad slow, but this reads like you went way the hell off on a tangent (like I'm surprised) and it has nothing at all to do with onions and the Flu.
Right? Or is it just me?

[Raven]

ever heard of Faraday
or the Faraday tube?a tube,,,, it had some onion cells in it and the force
was something he could measure and that began all tubes used in the old tv's

Garlic as do onions begin to grow even if begining to rot
they have incredible power

the flu arrived on a meteorite and even wiped out the eskimo's
who had absolutely no exposure to any other people{period|
this was proven

onions and garlic are from the same family

flu is a virus.... garlic is an antibiotic
they act in a similar fashion

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by Raven

the flu arrived on a meteorite and even wiped out the eskimo's
who had absolutely no exposure to any other people{period|
this was proven

Doesn't that prove life in space?

[BigBo]

Originally Posted by Piscator

Doesn't that prove life in space?

Don't get him started.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Piscator

Doesn't that prove life in space?

but just on the scientific evidence collected.......

like in forensics when dna found at the scene
in two places proves the subject was at both locations
but having "never found a body" he is set free.

recently a black hole plume was sighted out in space off the
edge of a black hole so friggan large that it has
more water than all of earths oceans by a billion times.

the evidence i was speaking of was of a mass epidemic,
a pandemic that happened all over the earth all at once

yet there was no real vehicle to spread the virus from one
country to another other than the weather....
until they discovered the eskimo evidence and it wiped out
90% of the eskimo people BAM all at once

which made scientist's theorize that it arrived like
a haley's comet type event....

[Raven]

peel yourself a raw piece of GARLIC
not a big piece but a small skinny piece
and chew it up fast

WOW what a RUSH that is!.....your mouth gets all tingly
and fuzzy and you have .. serious garlic breath
but later on you feel like
what ever bugs/ bacteria i had in me are DEAD!

[BluesHarp]

When my wife eats onion soup the resulting antibiotic GAS can kill any microbe within 100 feet.

The power of Onions should not be trifled with, from one who K-nose.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Raven

the flu arrived on a meteorite and even wiped out the eskimo's
who had absolutely no exposure to any other people{period|
this was proven

The flu arrived on the doorstep of the eskimos by way of whalers and fur trappers.

end of story.

nanu nanu

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Nebe

The flu arrived on the doorstep of the eskimos by way of whalers and fur trappers.

end of story.

nanu nanu

Chief Sumwukuwuk grand indian chief of the black flying things says great ball from sky carry smallpox too!