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think it was built * Give your reasons why. Drop it in the mail addressed to - Historic Research Project Rappahannock Library, Box 55, Washington, Va. Should you have a interesting report of some place not yet verified we will check it with records and if you are right you will be given full credit for the find when the report is published. The library is your source of help in many ways. It is yours. fVhy not use it regularly?
Wm. M. Carrigan,
Chairman Trustees
Warding Off Witches
Led to Candy Canes
One of the most popular symbols of the Christmas holidays, candy canes, began with an old superstition during the Middle Ages. Europeans of that period carried glass canes filled with colored candies to distract evil witches. "Belief was that the evil ones ' become so interested in sorting the candies that casting of < evil spells was forgotten.
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