'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' … / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.

Such hegemonic projects often appropriate certain local traditions and re-inscribe them as national, while dismissing other traditions which pose too great of a threat to the reproduction of the existing socio-political order.

Exposed to a moderate fire in subliming pots, [brimstone] rises all into dry, and almost tasteless, flowers; whereas being exposed to a naked fire, it affords store of a saline and fretting liquor.

[…]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.