Posted on 09/10/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by Twotone
The royal beekeeper - in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries - has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.
And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.
The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.
He placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives, home to tens of thousands of bees, before informing them that their mistress had died and that a new master would be in charge from now on.
He then urged the bees to be good to their new master - himself once famed for talking to plants.
The strange ritual is underpinned by an old superstition that not to tell them of a change of owner would lead to the bees not producing honey, leaving the hive or even dying.
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If you watch Midsomer Murders it is very familiar.
Interesting that 70+ years since this was last done, someone remembered now.
They’re somewhat expendable in hard times, otherwise drones seeve s purpose in breeding. Pretty cool ti stand in the middle of a mating swarm. You really get to know why they’re called drones.
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The Ravens of the Tower of London are a group of at least six captive ravens resident at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.
Some historians, including the Tower's official historian, believe the "Tower's raven mythology is likely to be a Victorian flight of fantasy".
The earliest known reference to captive ravens at the Tower is an illustration from 1883. Historically, wild ravens were common throughout Britain, even in towns; the Tower was within their natural range. When they were exterminated from much of their traditional range, including London, they could only exist at the Tower in captivity and with official support.
The Tower ravens are tended to by the Ravenmaster of the Yeomen Warders. Local legend puts the origin of the captive raven population at the time of King Charles II (reigned 1660–85)
‘The Life of the Bee’, by Maurice Maeterlinck, is one of the most beautiful books I’ve read:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Bee-Maurice-Maeterlinck/dp/0486451437
Now that’s odd
How about the Corgis?
Never more
People still talk to the bees in the U.S. Old custom.
...ahem.. This is NOT the Bee?
I lol’d at this one!
We’re going to be treated with lots of weird rituals over the next few months - read about one yesterday where Charles is to sprinkle red dirt from a silver bowl (or maybe it’s silver dirt from a red bowl) - onto his mother’s casket as it is being lowered into her grave.
Not the Babylon Bee?
Exactly
The UK can either have a Monarcy or a vibrant middle class, time to decide...
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