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Episode 196: Bad Seed

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Weather Related Exhumations - How Do You Do This?

All throughout eastern europe, there are stories of bodies being disinterred because of bad weather. In 18 91, a russian woman died of intoxication, and after her burial, the community experienced a drought. So her corpse was exhumed and dumped into the nearby river, hoping it would call up some rain. And in 18 68, people in the terraskance region of russia became so frustrated with their own drought that they dug up the coffin of a man everyone believed had been a sorcerer,. opened the lid and then hit the corpse over the head while chanting, give us rain. I think it's clear how our depend on the weather for healthy crops has led many cultures

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