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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

New Jersey: Better Ballooning with a Virgin

Organizers of the Quik Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning no longer buy weather insurance. To avoid festival-cancelling inclemency, they have imported a Singaporean superstition that insures good weather, using a virgin to utter incantations and pierce onions with a knife. Victoria Blumfeld, a... Sign in to see full entry.

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