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To become a warrior in a tribe. -no food, drink, or sleep for 4 days and nights. -change into special clothes and painted enter hut -slices of skin carved from their chest and shoulders -wooden skewers through the bleeding flesh behind the chest muscles -stout thongs, secured to rafters were tied to skewers -hoisted from floor by these and weights were attached to their feet -twirled around till fell unconscious -when recovered from this, given a hatchet to cut off their little finger -ropes then tied to wrists and force to run in circle like a horse until he passed out -if survive all this he can return to his family in honor knowing he is now a warrior.
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After a hanging, purchasing the rope and burning it yourself is said to remove all sins from you and keep you safe from the rope.
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Earrings are said to give the sailor better sight. The pulse center for the eyes is through the earlobe.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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Seeing a priest on the way to the ship to depart is bad luck. Sailor will not board the ship for 24hrs.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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Whistling on the sea is bad luck. It is said to mock the sound of a strong wind and will call it so nature can show the true sound. Whistling is only allowed when becalmed or when shrouded in fog.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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Common for sailors to get lashings for punishment. Sailors would then get tattoos of god symbols on thier back so the thrasher was less likely to whip the symbol of the god.Others say symbols bring bad luck. They draw the attention of the god and it could be wrathful. |
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Rats are said to be good luck. In the church if a rat walks over you while praying, good luck will come your way.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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The gong of a bell is said to scare away demons and ghosts.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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The wind Elementals write prayers on cloth and tie them to trees and bushes. The entrance to most temples will be through a large courtyard of trees with white clothes with writing on them flowing in the wind in the hopes that the wind elementals will see them and answer them.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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Elves use nature as strength and borrow from the trees to keep them living. An elf out of the forest for more than a day begins to die and within 3 days is dead without borrowing the strength of nature.
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Ideas - Lifeforms December 31, 2001 |
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A race that are always born as twins and only one recieves a soul. The other is soulless therefore without pity, shame, or guilt. The evil race. Can't tell them apart by looking at them.
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Ideas - Lifeforms December 31, 2001 |
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A village or town's dance was first taught to them long ago by the faeries.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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Good luck to drink out of wolve's paw prints or some other animal. Gives special powers.
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Ideas - System December 31, 2001 |
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A flower possibly in the plains or maybe all over that is always tilted towards a certain place. Sunflowers. Could possibly follow the sun or could be forever facing a certain position because of something that happened, either the air forcing it that way and it staying, the fire was so strong that the flowers faced away from it. It could be that in one spot a large fire was made or a fire war where many fire elementals were destroyed by the True Gods and radiating out from that point all of this flower is facing away from it so no matter where you are you always know where this place is by seeing which way the flower is facing away from.
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Ideas - Lifeforms December 31, 2001 |
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Able to raise body heat by concentration to save themselves in winter. Even to the point of drying freezing wet clothes.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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The devil's wind. Explains why people become crazy. They are caught up in this wind which steals their sanity which in turn feeds the wind. The wind is a leftover from when the air elementals banded together in a mass army at one point to attack the True Gods. The wind is leftover of their attack route and on the anniversary of the battle the wind sweeps through causing the madness.
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Ideas - Locations December 31, 2001 |
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Something lives in the fog in a certain region and travels with the fog. Kidnaps or kills, or is simply heard and 'felt'.
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Ideas - Lifeforms December 31, 2001 |
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Could be used for killing a certain animal...a prized animal. The bones must be carefully buried or disposed of lest a sorcerer get a hold of it. With the bones of the dead creature the sorcerer can kill the hunter.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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People hunting for fish with arrows aim parallel with the water so that if they miss the fish they are aiming at they may hit another by chance.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 31, 2001 |
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A basin type hole in the middle of the plains. Once every so many years the rains come very hard and flood this place. Maybe that is where the tribes congregate for their tribal meetings.
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Ideas - Locations December 31, 2001 |