# Mistletoe

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistletoe/677073>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 24, 2013, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistletoe/677073 "2013-12-24T09:57:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistletoe/677073/1 "2013-12-24T09:57:10Z")

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In the master’s [column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2378/mistletoe-kissing-origins-why-do-worms-surface-during-rain) about mistletoe, he cites Edgar Nash, saying Loki chucked the mistletoe spear at Baldur killing him. Nash¹ got it a bit wrong, at least according to the Prose Edda. It was even worse. During the play session, Baldur’s brother, the blind Höðr² is wanting to get in on the fun so Loki hands him the spear, saying “Here, use this,” and the rest is history. It began a chain of events that leads to Ragnorök which (for our cycle, at least) is Very Bad.

¹Surely it wasn’t the Perfect Master

²Pronounced Hoe-thur with a voiced th, like ‘there’