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Telling the Bees: What’s the Buzz?
The other day, Diana Gabaldon announced (FINALLY!) the release date for the next book in her Outlander series, entitled Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. For those of you familiar with the series, she’s a fan of long and unwieldy titles, so this was no exception, but I was surprised at how many people in Social Media Land found GTTBTIAG a puzzling series of words… because telling the bees is a really cool bit of folklore. Of course, this doesn’t bode well for Jamie and Claire Fraser, as one typically tells the bees about death… but that’s Diana Gabaldon’s story to tell, not mine. In general, this practice is a nineteenth…