A manuscript from Tun-huang, in central Asia, on the Great Silk Road (c. 800 CE) describes practices for transferring the energy of bad dreams to physical objects such as pieces of wood or bits of earth that are then destroyed or dispersed.

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We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.

In 1964 Goldwater ran rambunctiously, flat-out against government. He got shellacked.