Vegetable Voodoo
Well, you'll be happy to know that the organizers of the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning have discovered a method of ensuring good weather for the event. Virgin sacrifice. Well, ok, the virgin doesn't actually get offed, but it comes down to a variation on the same old Voodoo.
According to an imported superstition, good weather can be assured through a ceremony involving a virgin, some knives and fresh, whole onions and peppers.
And, no, Victoria Brumfield won't be sacrificed.
Festival organizer Howard Freeman said a colleague heard about it in Singapore several years ago. For the past two years, it has worked in Readington. Partly because of the superstition, Freeman no longer buys weather insurance for the event, which is expected to draw 175,000 people……
…….Here's how she does it: She drives a golf cart to the four corners of the festival site, picks up some grass, mumbles some random words, then penetrates the produce with a knife before jamming it and the knives into the ground. The ritual was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
The virgin lives, but the vegetables get it. We simply have no words for this one.
Weird Stuff | Gaius Thursday, 26 July , 2007
By old_dawg, Thursday, 26 July , 2007 @ 8:55 pm
I would think that finding a virgin who was old enough to drive a golf cart in New Jersey would be the difficult task.
By Gaius, Thursday, 26 July , 2007 @ 8:58 pm
Ow.