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Lotto vultures resort to bird-brained scheme [Smoking vulture brains!]
ABC News [Australia] ^ | 12/28/09

Posted on 12/28/2009 1:03:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows

The traditional medicinal practice of smoking dried vulture brains to induce a vision of winning lotto numbers is killing off the bird's population in South Africa, researchers say.

Scelo, a young healer in downturn Johannesburg's market for muti, or traditional medicine, says the birds are becoming more scarce.

"I only have one every three or four months," he said.

"Everybody asks for the brain. You see things that people can't see. For lotto, you dream the numbers."

Rolled into a cigarette or inhaled as vapours, vulture brains can also help at the horse races, boost an exam performance, or lure more clients to a business, according to believers.

Next to snake skins and ostrich feet, as well as donkey fat to chase away bad spirits, Scelo sells a small bottle with just a speck of ground brains for about 50 rand ($7.50).

The entire bird could go for 2,000 rand ($299).

Another traditional healer, speaking on condition of anonymity, says vulture bones or feathers can also be mixed with herbs to make medicines.

"We make the brain dry and mix it with mud and you smoke it like a cigarette or a stick. Then the vision comes," he said.

He prescribes mainly vulture heads, which he says bring visions of the future, endowing users with the bird's excellent vision that helps them fly out of nowhere to descend on carcasses.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalrights; dopersrights; drugwar; lotterynumbers; lotto; nannystate; napl; smokingnazis; vulturebrains
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Celebrate diversity.
1 posted on 12/28/2009 1:03:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
If they want vultures, let's send them Reid and Pelosi.


2 posted on 12/28/2009 1:05:05 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Will canary do?


3 posted on 12/28/2009 1:06:21 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (They didn't like " Merry Christmas"... well then - Happy New Year of our Lord 2010!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Vultures? Bird-brained scheme? I thought they were talking about Congress and the “health” bill.


4 posted on 12/28/2009 1:06:38 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Slings and Arrows
The entire bird could go for 2,000 rand ($299).

It seems to me that they will have to roll quite a big spliff to smoke the entire bird.

At least 160 vultures are sold each year for muti, according to a study by two wildlife groups.

 

 

5 posted on 12/28/2009 1:10:09 AM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Slings and Arrows
spliff
6 posted on 12/28/2009 1:14:16 AM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Slings and Arrows

"vulture brains, vulture brains, get your tutsie frutsie vulture brains"

7 posted on 12/28/2009 1:15:56 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Slings and Arrows

A dead vulture is displayed outside a traditional healer's shop at the Farady market in Johannesburg


8 posted on 12/28/2009 1:20:09 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Holy Cow. Don't tell them a bullet in the brain cures all illness.
9 posted on 12/28/2009 1:20:38 AM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: MaxMax

It does, but the side-effects are a real b****.


10 posted on 12/28/2009 1:24:14 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Stoat

I wondered the same thing about smoked turkey.


11 posted on 12/28/2009 1:25:32 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Doogle

This is FR - no Marxists allowed.


12 posted on 12/28/2009 1:27:42 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Add some computer models, a few hundred-billion in grants, and a “consensus” of tenured mountebanks, and “Cathartidae Neurological Forecasting” becomes a widely-believed fact that only a Flat-Earther would deny.


13 posted on 12/28/2009 1:30:19 AM PST by Anti-Utopian ("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
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To: Slings and Arrows
We should tell them about liberal brains to get them to come hunt all our liberals to extinction.

But then, they'd figure out, after cutting into the first one, that liberals don't have brains...

14 posted on 12/28/2009 1:32:18 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Well my first thought, this explains a lot regarding the picture Obama is found of while smoking a joint; then I realized this is more than an explanation to life, the clown universe and everything. I see an emerging market, they want vultures well then the smartest people on earth with the correct genetic variance and the right way of doing everything should have vultures in every hut and pot; we can finally give peace a chance…who knew.


15 posted on 12/28/2009 1:49:02 AM PST by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Howza ‘bout dem pigeons brains for a glimpse into da future?


16 posted on 12/28/2009 2:35:42 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Slings and Arrows

This is how Harry and Nancy are so sure that their MengeleCare won’t hurt their party’s re-election prospects in the fall: they’re smoking vulture brains.

But doesn’t that make them cannibals?


17 posted on 12/28/2009 2:36:27 AM PST by samtheman
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To: ntmxx

“We make the brain dry and mix it with mud and you smoke it like a cigarette or a stick. Then the vision comes,” he said.”

And we were wondering how the Democrats came up with their healthcare bill. ;-)


18 posted on 12/28/2009 2:37:02 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Slings and Arrows
Darn, those buzzard brains are cheap. A dismembered human albino’s body can be had for around $75,000 in the Black Messiah’s homeland of Kenya. ;0)
19 posted on 12/28/2009 4:48:20 AM PST by seemoAR (If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, dazzle them with bull.)
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To: seemoAR

The free market works.


20 posted on 12/28/2009 5:02:10 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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