Sunday, July the 24th, 2005
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“Rusterich, one of the Teutonic gods, was found in an excavation… The head was made of metal and contained a pot of water. The mouth and another hole in the forehead being stopped by wooden plugs, a fire of charcoal was lighted under this pot of water, and at length the steam drove out the plugs with a great noise, and the god was shrouded in a mist of steam which concealed him from his astonished worshippers.” — John Sutherland Sinclair, Lectures On Popular And Scientific Subjects