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" Gather &amp;#039;round, internet people. Let me tell you the tale of the White Hart of central Iowa.  Not but a few &amp;#039;morrows ago in the shire of Iowa, a rare, large, White Hart buck \u2014 a freakish yet beautiful mutation if there e&amp;#039;er was one \u2014 had roamed the shire of Prairie City, Iowa for several moons, inspiring both fear and awe in the heart of the local townsfolk for the last five years or so, since the animal was first spotted. These white stags are truly rare \u2014 albino stags number just 1 in 100,000 \u2014 so it was only a matter of time before a mysterious assailant felled it.  The hunter eventually came clean, calling authorities to try to assuage his fate. &amp;quot;I did not know that the stag I shot had actually been white stag that was so beloved,&amp;quot; he said. We&amp;#039;re paraphrasing here, because it sounds like bullshit. Then the full weight of the law came down on him to punish him and warn any other would-be white hart hunters. OK that wasn&amp;#039;t quite accurate. They ended up writing him a ticket for $127.50.  The cruelest masterstroke, though, was that someone else made off with the animals antlers, and nothing else. They presumably sawed off the antlers in order to mount them \u2014 as if to say &amp;quot;I, STEALER OF ANTLERS, DECLARE MYSELF KING OF IOWA&amp;#039;S WILDLIFE, THE MASTER OF THEIR FATE AND THEIR DOMAIN FOR I CARRY THE CROWN OF THEIR KING.&amp;quot; At least, one can only presume that&amp;#039;s what they want those antlers for.  But fate may have something else in store for the person who took the antlers. According to British folklore (brought to us by our friends at Ye Dailye Maile):  Like many legends, those surrounding the white hart come with their fair share of curses and prophecies of bad luck to anyone who crosses the creature. For the ancient Celts, the white hart was a harbinger of doom, a living symbol that some taboo has been transgressed or a moral law broken. To come across a white hart was to realise that some terrible evil or judgment was imminent. The white hart&amp;#039;s reputation improved in Arthurian legends, where its appearance was a sign to Arthur and his knights that it was time to embark on a quest - it was considered the one animal that could never be caught so it came to symbolize humanity&amp;#039;s never-ending pursuit of knowledge and the unattainable. Which is to say that the antler-thief (how retro, you guyz!) will probably die in some sort of Final Destination-like way, killed not only by his own foolishness in thinking that he was the leader of Iowa&amp;#039;s animal kingdom, but by centuries of mythology and lore. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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