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arolet t1_ixoikmu wrote

I’m on Ocracoke Island drinking pomegranate martinis! However, I feel for everybody having a difficult holiday. I have a relatively broken family and am all too familiar with how hard it can be. Luckily this year has been smooth for us so far but my heart goes out to those less fortunate

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Vapid_Ingenue t1_ixpujil wrote

When I was a child I was told a story of how Ocracoke Island got its name. Apparently during the Puritan times a lot of people were put to death for supposed witchery, and one of the methods was to hang them from a cross on the shoreline, pierce their midsection, and essentially starve them to death. When the person died, crows would come and pluck their eyeballs out. People on the cross would be suffering so badly, in such misery and agony, that they would cry out, "Oh caw, crow!" because they wanted to die and end their pain.

Now, as an adult with Internet access, I realize my dad was full of shit

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[deleted] t1_ixq5nox wrote

It's funny you say that because when we went to Kill Devil Hills this summer my son asked about the names so we looked it up and there were a bunch of speculative stories as to why they came up with the name and none of them really made sense so I made up my own reason lol

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