Witchcraft of the Middle Ages

People were very superstitious during the Middle Ages. They used useless spells to accomplish things like to regain a lost lover or to get rid of enemies. Can you mach these spells/curses to their solutions???

1) To cure madness

2) To cure aching bones

3) To find out which suspect is a criminal

4) To cure a mad dog

5) To cure a headache

6) To cure an animal's sickness

7) To cure a heartache

8) To make someone fall in love with you

a) Cross garters over their ears and mutter a spell

b) Feed them paper with a charm written on it

c) Jump in a river

d) Release a live bat into their room

e)Scatter rose petals in their path

f) Write their names on pieces of paper and place them one at a time inside the Bible

g) Boil some of their hair in urine and throw in on a fire

h) Tie herbs to their tail or tap them with a magic wand

Answers: 1d, 2c, 3f (note: the Bible will shake when the guilty name is put in), 4b, 5g, 6h, 7a, 8e

Reference: The Wicked History of the World by Terry Deary and Martin Brown

The Nine Essential Amino Acids

Lysine- found in all proteins (wheat, rice, maize, meat, etc)
Histidine- found in animal proteins
Isoleucine-most dietary proteins
Leucine- found in most common proteins
Methionine- is found in all meats
Phenylalanine- found in many foods, especially meat and dairy
Threonine- found in all proteins
Tryptophan- found in protein-rich foods
Valine- found in all proteins

SKIN ERUPTIONS

I'm sure we all agree that skin is nice, but if it's unhealthy skin, It's pretty unpleasant. You can sprout blisters and warts the size of quarters, scratch so much that your skin is red and raw, and get viruses whose symptoms can really irritate your outer layer. But first, know your skin eruption lingo!

MACULE- a flat splotch of color.

PAPULE- a small bump.

PLAQUE- a raised, flat patch of skin.

BULLAE- a large, fluid-filled blister.

And now we know all these big words, lets get to a few derma-dramas.

ECZEMA- your skin gets dry, red, and cracked, and blisters pop up, too.

MOLES- happen when a lot of nevus cells band together. My little sister once had a mole removed becuz the Doctor said it might lead to melanoma.

SUNBURN- is caused by too much sun, as we all know.

And that is what I chose to write about on the topic SKIN ERUPTIONS.