The Thunderweapon in Religion And Folklore, a Study in Comparative Archaeology
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The "Sebedeje"- or " Spardeje "-stones {i.e. fossilized sea-urchins) were kept on the milk-shelves to get good cream on the milk. In the same way, the small flint wedges, called thunderstones, were kept on the dairy shelves to act SOURCES 73 as a protection against strokes of lightning. North Funen. [Christine Reimer, in Kvindemes Blad, February 22, 1900.J 26. At Sonderso, district of Odense, and the neigh- bouring villages, the flint axes were commonly called thunder- bolts. When an old house ...was pulled down in Sonderso a flint axe was found lying under the roof on the top of the oven. [Communicated in 1908 by Professor H. A. Nielsen.] 27. In my childhood, in the forties, I often heard thunder- stones spoken of, and my parents kept one on the floor under a chest. It was one of the common implements of the stone age called flint wedges. It was thought that they fell down from the sky when the thunder struck, and it was further believed that when one of them was kept in the house the thunder would not harm it.
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