Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:21:05 EDT

From: "Karl-Heinz W. Boewe" MCLK-HWB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UKCC.UKY.EDU

Subject: Chickengods



A couple of years ago I went back to the island of my birth, Ruegen, with

my cousin who lives in Berlin. I picked up an unusually shaped stone, flint

most likely, with a hole through it, and my cousin said: "Ach ja, ein Huehner-

gott!" I had never heard the expressio but he said that they, as kids, had

always called it that when on vacation on the Baltic beaches. He had no idea

why. I brought it back with me to Kentucky, hoping that some day I would find

an etymological explanation.



Karl-Heinz W. Boewe

Medical Center Library

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky 40536