Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
#64
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2003
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RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
My version of the European tradition of the "last bite"... I place a bit of vegetation in his (or her) mouth, and piece of the samevegetationin my pocketuntil I kill another.
#66
RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
I have a buddy who lies on the ground and cuddles up with the deer for a couple hours whispering sweet nothings in its ear. Heck he should be out of the looney bin any day now.
#67
Spike
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RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
The first thing my dad told me when we recovered my first buck was that I needed to put the nuts up in a tree for good luck. I've followed this tradition on ever buck since and I know he has too. I'm assuming it came from Grandpa to start with. I'm starting to think it's more of a Wisconsin thing the more I read in this post. I know I have come upon gut piles multiple times during gun season and found them hanging in a tree nearby... so I'm not the only weird one :-) Outside of that, just a simple thanks for the opportunity to have experienced a successful hunt.
#68
Join Date: Jun 2005
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RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
Man that's one of the funniest things I have ever heard of. Gastler does your buddy play with the deer's nuts when he's layin' there whispering in its ear.Now THAT would be funny. You northerners are killing me
#69
RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
We normally keep killing a deer low key. Many people don't think to highly of hunting these days anyway so we don't really provoke them. We say a prayer, gut it, put the carcass in the dump, go to town to get it made to sausage, and it's done.
#70
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Ritual - Do you do anything symbolic after the kill
....I remove its heart in the field and drink from it. I smear its blood all over my face neck.and head ... .I eat the heart as soon as I can..( sometimes raw) in order to capture the animals soul ..so that he is one with me..I say a prayer for the spirit of the beast