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Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 73

Several examples of “freak” editions of tlfe Bible recently came under the auctioneer’s hammer in London. One of the most remarkable is known as the “Bug Bible.” In this the context of Psalm xci, 5 runs: “Thou slialt not be afrayde for eny bugges by night”— “bugges,” in mediaeval times, meaning nightmares and other terrors. Another curious example in the collection is the “Treacle Bible,” in which the passage Jeremiah iii, 22, reads: “There is no more triacle at Gylead.” The “Murderers’ Bible” takes its title from an error in the translation of Jude, verse 16, which in the Authorised Version runs: “These are murmurers, complainers”; while a curious misprint in the Beatitudes, “Blessed are the placemakers,” gave rise to one set of Bibles being known as the “Placcinakers” edition. Altogether there arc no fewer than 10 “freak” editions of the Great Book, some of them of considerable value. The Timaru Herald reports that the Borough Council has decided to open tho bathing facilities on tho Bay on Sunday afternoons for the remainder of tho season.