TIDBITS 02/17/08

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We encourage you to forward this email to friends and colleagues. ====================================== Bear Fetish Necklace It would appear that last week when writing about a Bird Fetish Necklace I neglected to mention there were bears there too. It stretches the limits of the imagination to believe I would do such a thing. I am still trying to come to grips over this slight ... oh so slight ... yet quite painful ... omission. However ... in order to make amends to those sharp-eyed amongst you who noticed this oh so slight omission ... I bring you a Bear Fetish Necklace. I defy you of the keen vision to find a bird amongst them bears.

So then ... why a Bear Necklace you might ask. Well ... for one thing ... it is a well known fact--not recognized by our rather uneducated medical community--that bear grease cures baldness. So here's the conundrum ... how does one go about getting bear grease? I have the answer dear souls ... an answer that descends from an American Ozarks tradition. First of course ... one has to find the bear ... and then one has to kill it ... then lug it home ... eat the meat ... and rub on the bear grease. Anyone out there ever try to lug home bear? Not easy ... I am here to tell you. But the Ozarkians had the answer. Shoot the little devil ... but don't kill him. You will enrage him. Bears tend to object to being wounded. He will become very angry with you. This is what you want. He will begin to chase after you ... and if you're fast enough (this is a crucial element) ... if you're fast enough ... he will chase you all the way home ... at which point you can turn around and shoot him dead. See? No lugging! That's how they did it in the Ozarks.

In Southern France there once was an annual spring celebration. Some chap would dress up as a bear ... emerge from a virtual cave ... frighten the townsfolk ... and perform a mock abduction on some unsuspecting maiden who surely swooned from the vapors. I have no clue what the vapors are ... so don't ask. All I know is women sometimes got them.

Of course ... the bear's greatest asset is that it is a curer of the highest caliber who is also possessed of supernatural powers. In the mythology of the Sioux and the Chippewa and the Pueblos the bear is often depicted as a healer. Some Indian tribes would apologize to a bear they had killed.

By the way ... and I'm not advocating this ... but there are some out there who believe that a woman and a bear can unite to have a divine infant. I just hope that in the process of creating a divine infant they are also having a divine old time.

There's so much more to tell about bears ... but I say always leave 'em wanting more.

That all said ... I have a Bear Fetish Necklace to show you made of Epidot and Adventurine and Rose Quartz and Tiger Eye and Rhodenite and Agate and Goldstone and who knows what other stones.

For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I direct you to my home page at

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where you will scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says Current Tidbits ... and then click on it in order to view a multi-stone Bear Fetish Necklace.

And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all next week. Benjamin Mark