Jim

The story was that 3 Indians broke in on Granny while Granddad was out plowing. She was alone in the house. She was cooking a pot of Turnip Greens in the fireplace and took up the pot throwing the boiling contents on the intruders. She then began beating the intruders over the head with the pot.

When Granddad got home he found Granny standing in the middle of their bed with the dented pot in her hand. The Indians were under the bed and every time one would stick his head out she would bang him with the pot.

This was the 1680's frontier of western Virginia.

By the way we have been eating turnip greens ever since and haven't had an Indian attack in a couple of hundred years now.