[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

[Becky McEllistrem]

Phillip you're my friend and I care about you very
much, so take this in the nicest of ways:  I'm getting
very worried about you..... <G>

Rebecca


--- Phillip Jones <jonesj at infoave.net> wrote:
> 
> Fascinating. Truly the most informative thread I've
> seen in some time.
> 
> Now then, is the glass method documentable to
> period? I mean, I'd hate for
> some body to get all bent out of shape because my
> disposal methods were OOP.
> The ghost of any such laurel would haunt me with
> moans of "out of period",
> "not doc u MENT a ble" {shiver}. Would oyster shells
> work well, I mean if we
> wanted to keep an Atlantian theme?
> 
> Seems to me that another fine method would be pigs.
> I hear they eat pretty
> much everything, but am concerned how they would
> handle the thick skulls of
> certain um objects....
> 
> 
> Phillip Jones
> Triplette Competition Arms
> 101 East Main Street
> Elkin, NC 28621
> 336-835-7774
> phillip at mindless.com
> www.triplette.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org]On Behalf Of
> Velsthe1 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:07 AM
> To: phillip at mindless.com; atlantia at atlantia.org
> Subject: RE: [MR] Quick Lime (Lye)
> 
> 
> 
> >I'm less interested in soapmaking than in hiding
> the
> >corpses. Is ashe lye suitable for this?
> >Phillip Jones
> 
> Errr, well, it will work. The most popular (commonly
> used through history)
> method is to pile a number of bodies into an open
> pit then coat them in lye.
> Sun and rain doing their natural things will erode a
> body in a about a week,
> less if there is a lot of lye and rain.
> 
> The most effective and easily disguisable way of
> doing it is burying the
> body with layers of lye and broken glass in this
> order (from the bottom to
> top): dirt, glass, lye, body, lye, glass, lye, dirt,
> glass, dirt to surface.
> The glass immediately above and below the body
> servers to grind the body and
> help the lye do it's job. The glass just below the
> surface is to discourage
> animals from digging up the evide...bod...object
> buried. Doesn't work as
> fast as the open pit method, but in about 3 weeks,
> there isn't much left but
> broken glass under about 3 feet of dirt.
> 
> Just pay attention to make sure that the water table
> is low, and ground
> drinking water isn't too near (particularly yours).
> 
> 
> Vels
>
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