Ringing Church Bells to Ward Off Thunderstorms and Other Curiosities from the Original Notes and Queries | 
pick‘Notes and Queries‘ first appeared on 3rd November 1849 and quickly established itself as the nineteenth century‘s go-to miscellany of the odd and the eccentric. This book presents the best bits; questions and answers, mostly. My favourites (in no particular order): ‘ELEPHANTS: Are they aroused by mulberry blood and human earwax?‘; ‘GAME FEATHERS IN BEDDING: Do they delay death?‘; and ‘LEECHES: Can they predict the weather?‘ Terrific stuff.
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