Monday, March 29, 2004
Check your sources
I was quite certain that snuff mull from yesterday's blog about weird E-bay auction sites was satanic, or some sort of thing. Never mind that the term "snuff mull" inherently doesn't sound too evil, though it is vague enough to lend itself to all kinds of arcane interpretations. I was simply wowed by the object's appearence, which though it was very clearly a form of careful workmanship still looked as though the flesh were rotting off it.
Well, turns out it's not satanic. It's Scottish. And you can see on this page, which is dedicated to all sorts of Scottish paraphernalia--including bag pipes and kilts and the rest--that the odd rotting-flesh ram's head is only the ultimate example of a flourishing fine art--the storing of things (like snuff, most naturally) in done-up animal horns.
Expensive done-up animal horns.
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