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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chiggers
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:06:00 -0700


On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Robert Walton wrote:

Indians, Native Americans must have had ways to protect themselves.
Probably also the smarts to not get into chiggers.

How often do you suppose they bathed, used soaps and shampoos? If I were planning to go out half naked into the woods to get a deer I would likely slather some smooshed jewelweed and mud on me. Hide the human odor, an attractant to bloodsuckers worldwide and certainly a deer repellent.

And I'm betting those smoky teepees and wigwams were inhospitable to insects.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com








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