[UA] Edible clay?

[Timothy Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Underkoffler" <chadu at yahoo.com>
To: "Unknown Armies" <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Edible clay?


> > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:20:19 +0200
> > From: Mario Magallanes <aegis at wanadoo.es>
> >
> > Patrick O'Duffy escribió:
> > > 1 - What's the real deal with this sort of thing?
> > > Religious ritual, quack healing, wierd fetish or not?
> > > What real-world rituals and myths are based on eating clay
> > > and dirt?
> >
> > Real life, no idea. The only thing that comes to mind is
> > Kim Stanley Robinson's RED MARS, where a colonist faction
> > eat pieces of Martian soil as sort of communion rite.
>
> It can be called "pica."
>
> http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/pica.html
>
> Causes of pica:
>
> http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/pica_p3.html
>
> More resources:
>
> http://www.eating-disorder.org/pica.html
> http://www.tdo.com/features/environ/wiaz/0331wiaz.htm
> http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa092997.htm

Just to add one more to this excellent list of resources:
"Is it crazy to eat clay?"
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_090.html

which has one of my all time favorite Unca Cecil-isms:  It's all very
well to obsess, but let's not get carried away.

Any way that can find its way into a sourcebook?


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