Dr. Sam Edelstein, a homeopath, was deciding which of the items to\nselect today. Before him, as always, were placed two toads, three plant roots,\nfour beetles, three eggs and a dead snake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Sam Edelstein\u2019s task was to select none or more of any of the five\ndifferent types of item, but at least one, which should be different from what\nhe had selected yesterday \u2013 this was required for the magic potion to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If he could keep this up for a year without any error of duplication,\nthey would let him go. Otherwise they would cook him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gagawugu tribe lived isolated from more civilized tribes and Dr.\nSam Edelstein had made the mistake of curing the chief\u2019s daughter Lala, whom he\nhad found lying unconscious with an arm turning black from septicemia, but\nhaving done so using incomprehensible means considered offensive to the guiding\nnature spirits by shamans \u2013 and, not least, without permission from the tribe\u2019s\nhead shaman Oloo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Sam Edelstein had cured lovely Lala with a couple of Pyrogen 200C\npills he took from his emergency remedy kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An inter-tribal committee of shamans had concurred with Oloo that an\noffense against the ruling nature spirits had been committed and must be\npunished. So, Dr. Sam Edelstein had been sentenced to the cooking pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Oloo needed someone to select ingredients for his potions, and\nafter earnest supplications from the now cured Lala, who had taken a shine to Dr.\nEdelstein, the sentence had been mitigated to making daily ingredient selections\nfor Oloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Dr. Sam Edelstein could perform his task without error until the sun\nreturned to the same annual place in the sky, he would be released \u2013 but\nfattened up in the meantime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While picking the daily items, Dr. Sam Edelstein was fervently hoping that\nhis assistant Jacques Devereaux, who had run off when the natives approached,\nwould bring a rescue team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you think it will be possible\nfor Dr. Sam Edelstein to select different groups of ingredients for Oloo\u2019s\nconcoctions for an entire year, or will he wind up in the cooking pot?<\/em><\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>