Re: legend of Greyfriar's Bobby

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 28 Jan 2006 - 05:41:50 GMT

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    >From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: legend of Greyfriar's Bobby
    >Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:56:47 -0500
    >
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    Jainists revere animals so much as to erect a rat
    >temple in a part of the world (India) where plague is a concern.
    >
    This rat temple is Hindu, not Jainist. Oops.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0628_040628_tvrats.html

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