Nicholas, I don't have specific answers, but I would like to suggest a source for further research on the first question. There is an excellent history museum in Copenhagen - the Museum of Danish Resistance - devoted to those who resisted the 1940-45 occupation of Denmark (perhaps they were imbued with Hitler-hating venom). The curators of that museum may know whether the story is approximately accurate. I have read about a popular movement in Denmark during that period to wear yellow Star of David patches and thus signify opposition to police round-ups of Jews. In any event, the Nationalmuseet web site <http://www.natmus.dk/> has contact info for the Museum curatorial staff, including email. regards, LD On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 12:05 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > > Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:28:14 -0400 > From: Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Adaptation of a tradition? > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0059_01C43E5D.8AD96480 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > I don’t see how that is so. Tradition is always in flux and transition > especially as technology changes underlying realities. For example, > some > narratives that have been associated with sailing vessels have now > become > associated with airplanes while some encounter tales with “angels” have > evolved to tales about “encounters” with UFO’s. As early as the 1930’s > Jung > published a monograph delineating this phenomenon. > In the case I posted there are a number of interesting questions that > immediately come to mind: 1) Is the behavior described true—did > Norwegians > and Danes actually have a protest dress code?; 2) If this tale is > true, then > the question is: did the letter originate in Scandinavia or in the US, > or > even another country?; 3) If the referenced custom is not true where > and how > did it originate? > I think, that all these are important questions when we are > experiencing the > internet phenomenon that has replaced the village square for gossip and > communication. Given the global reach of this list and its size I am > hoping > that answers to the posed questions can be found. > Cheers, -Nicholas ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).