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the crossing

An article from The Chronicles of England Ireland and Scotland (with Olde English spelling)

 

WOMAN CROSSES WATER

yeere 1587 HOLINSHED Chronicles (1808, V 16) [Hebrides] Over against Rosse, in an Ile named Lewis, 60 miles in length, in this Ile is but one fish river, it is said that if a woman wade through the river at the spring of the yeere, there shall no samon be seene there for a twelve month after.

 

The model is my younger daughter, not yet a woman. I did not want to risk losing all the salmon for the sake of one photo :)

 

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Taken for our daily challenge - Superstition

 

 

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