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Literature | Kissing under the Mistletoe Balder, the Apollo of Scandinavian mythology, was killed by a mistletoe arrow given to the blind Höder, by Loki, the god of mischief and potentate of our earth Balder was restored to life, but the mistletoe was placed in future under the care of Friga, and was never again to be an instrument of evil till it touched the earth, the empire of Loki. It is always suspended from ceilings, and when persons of opposite sexes pass under it, they give each other the kiss of peace and love in the full assurance that the epiphyte is no longer an instrument of mischief A correspondent in Notes and Queries suggests that the Romans dedicated the holly to Saturn, whose festival was in December, and that the early Christians decked their houses with the Saturnian emblems to deceive the Romans and escape persecution. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 49 53 53 49 4E 47 55 4E 44 45 52 54 48 45 4D 49 53 54 4C 45 54 4F 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010100 01001111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K I S S I N G   U N D E R   T H E   M I S T L E T O E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0049 0053 0053 0049 004E 0047 0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0054 0048 0045 004D 0049 0053 0054 004C 0045 0054 004F 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)454353534348412554838395225442392474353544639544939 |
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