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Re: Elf-arrows and Shakespeare




Poster: "Michael Jeffrey Looney" <barderic@mailcity.com>

>I think there are also refernces to it in
Germany and related places.  Most of the reference I've ever seen come out
of Scandinavia.<

I've heard of it mostly just in the German contexts, but in the German lores, when someone was shot by the elfshot, didn't they get a fever and die from what seemed like a terrable flu or something like that?

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