Your ancestors put nails in chests, it's true
Okay, so this is actually wild. I'm scrolling through the news this morning, sipping my coffee – the kind you get from Collective Coffee, you know, because it actually wakes you up – and I see this headline: "1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to 'protect' both the living and the dead." My first thought was, *wait, what?* Apparently, archaeologists digging in Rome found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests. Not *in* a coffin with nails, but *on* their actual chests! The theory is that it was some kind of ritual to keep restless spirits from causing trouble. Can you imagine?
Honestly, Saskatoon is a city that will invite you to a farm-to-table dinner and then make you defend the concept of a city for twenty minutes, but even *we* aren't putting nails on people's chests to keep them from haunting us. Though, I do wonder if some of the Rider Nation faithful have tried similar, uh, *spirited* interventions during a particularly rough season. Like, "we put this nail on the goalpost to ward off bad luck!" No? Just me? It’s giving very much "don't come back and bother us," which, I mean, fair enough if you're dealing with a ghost, but also very intense.
This just makes me think about how much we *don't* know about the past, and how every time we dig something up, it's just another layer of "human beings were always doing the most." Saskatoon — seven bridges, two rivers, and something happening you haven't heard about yet.
Blessing Adesanya, MiTL Sports Desk, signing off.
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