They have many tales in the Palatinate about Elwetritsche – the descendants of various kinds of fowl bred with forest dwellers like elves and goblins. I once found an Elwetritsche egg on a hike in the Palatinate Forest and since it seemed abandoned I decided to put in my backpack and carry it with me. Unfortunately, the eggshell cracked when stumbled on a big root of an oak tree and the Elwetritsch hatched right there in my pack. It was the kind which has a beak and sharp teeth and it started to hack its way through the canvas. It managed to get out and immediately fluttered and hopped into the thicket where I just manage to glance a larger Elwetritsch whom the newborn followed. I was left bewildered, with a split backpack, a swollen ankle and tale to tell in the next pub over a dubbeglas filled with a dry local wine.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Furphy
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Make that a triple. Well done.
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Tell that to young people now-a-days and they would never believe you 😂
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Maybe they believe that the Elwetritsche moved to the US with the Pennsylvania Dutch, the majority of whom stem from the Palatinate. … Just thinking aloud … a certain Friedrich Trump came from the Palatinate to the US. No idea what he had in his luggage.
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I’d believe that 😉
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I went and believed every word of that!.
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Mhm… 🤔 does that mean I told a good story or a bad furphy … ?
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I had to look up furphy. So you’re teaching me English now?
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I had to look it up, too. I don’t speak Australian. I speak Seffrican slang, china. (dated Seffrican slang)
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Ah! That explains it.
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