There are stories of women with no knowledge of heavy physical labor, and they get out there and pull the plow because the mule starved to death, or they hammer dynamite holes into an inconvenienlty placed rock so the railroad track can go through. Some of those slave women developed great strength from lifting bundles of soaking-wet laundry out of a tub and beating it till it was clean. Or picking cropa. Or chopppng firewood for the cast iron stove.
I remember how bad the young teleporter felt when he couldn't save Granny Whammy.
OH, and the fancy ladies in New Orleans know all about zombies and raising the dead and the tricks of Le Baron Samedi and Madame Brigitte. So Queenie just used ordinary sex magic to revive BIg Bad John and have hundreds of grandchildren. And somewhere there's a mulatto girl who's the sexiest woman south of the Mason-Dixon line, descended from Cajun Queenie. And she has a twin brother "strong man" whose stage act includes bench-pressing a Greyhound bus,and he shows they're descended from JOhn Henry. Genetics likes to play tricks on us. My son's as much of a wiseass as I am, and he and his father share a lack of how to use basic punctuation.
So as others have suggested, all the strong men and heroes of mythology and history were soups, and maybe their abilities bred true? Gilgamesh, Hercules, and Thor were all mutants? As good an explanation as any.
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Re: Well...
Date: 2023-07-31 07:59 pm (UTC)I remember how bad the young teleporter felt when he couldn't save Granny Whammy.
OH, and the fancy ladies in New Orleans know all about zombies and raising the dead and the tricks of Le Baron Samedi and Madame Brigitte. So Queenie just used ordinary sex magic to revive BIg Bad John and have hundreds of grandchildren. And somewhere there's a mulatto girl who's the sexiest woman south of the Mason-Dixon line, descended from Cajun Queenie. And she has a twin brother "strong man" whose stage act includes bench-pressing a Greyhound bus,and he shows they're descended from JOhn Henry. Genetics likes to play tricks on us. My son's as much of a wiseass as I am, and he and his father share a lack of how to use basic punctuation.
So as others have suggested, all the strong men and heroes of mythology and history were soups, and maybe their abilities bred true? Gilgamesh, Hercules, and Thor were all mutants?
As good an explanation as any.