The Lexicographer's Rules

“Outsiders were shunned by the Kachin, who drew their strength from the jungle that they believed was inhabited by nats. These omniscient ‘messengers of the soil’ hid among the thickets, watched from the skies, possessed wild animals and entered the tribesemen’s homes. They were said to be the spirits of those who had died violently and could assume monstrous shapes, bringing disease and destruction on all those who failed to honour them. The jungles would have certainly reverberated with the sound of wild incantations as the Kachins invoked the Great Spirit, the Evil One, the Glorious One. And when a traveller heard the hell-raising screams, he knew that the Kachin were about to go into battle, leaping on their quarry from the tree-tops, lopping off the ears of their victims, which were collected as trophies.” (Source Link)

“Knocking Down Screws. This was a game played especially in London and its environs in the the first half of the twentieth century. In 1957 a boy from High Laver, near Ongar in Essex, provided the only post-1950 description. A screw was stood on its head, the missile preferred being a cherry-stone—a marble or pebble being looked on as a poor substitute because it made the game too easy. The screw might itself be the prize, in which case the owner in recompense pocketed the cherry-oggs which were cast at it; alternatively, he who made the successful shot won the stones as well. Long screws were considered more valuable than shorties; and brass screws, known as ‘brawnies’, more valuable than steel screws or ‘milkies’. The boy from High Laver explained that ‘the number of threads’ on the screw were first counted and ‘the same number of paces were taken from the screw’ before the cherry-stones were bowled at it. An alternative was to flick cigarette cards at the screw.” (Source Link)