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Subject: Celtic Toes?
Date: 5 Oct 1997 19:09:16 EDT


Mac,
This originally came from "The Highlander", April/May, 1997 and was
reprinted in the Old Pike Post, quarterly publication of The Allegany
County Maryland Genealogical Society:
"According to Phyllis Jackson, podiatrist of Gloucestershire, During
WWII, refugees flooded the town of Hereford...turned out to be Scottish,
Irish, Welsh and Cornish. Poor things kept coming to me with awful
bunions. Quite different from the English ones I was accustomed to
seeing, who had broad feet with toes forming a steep angle somewhat
pointed from the first to the fifth toe. Celtic evacuees had toe tips
almost level with one another, and their feet tended to be longer and
slimmer except at the base of the big toe where bunions form...Jackson
took up archaeology and examined skeletal remains of a few Saxon and
Celtic bones from a 6th century cemetery and found that the differences
held.....

Connie

MA>Dear List,

MA>I'm likely bringing up something that was rode hard and put away wet a
MA>long time ago. Please advise the uninlightened what "Celtic Toes" are.

MA>Mac
MA>

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