Racked my brain to think of things to post here.
Then I remembered,. For fifteen years I have been running an ever more occasional series in the bat group newsletter base on Simon Bond’s  101 uses for a Dead Cat  (1981) which I have used as a way of filling gaps in the newsletter.

101 Uses For a Dead Bat

Number 1.

Gamblers used to thread the right eye of  a bat or even a bat’s heart on a thread to bring them good luck.