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The news is far more promising ahead of Stellar Jayne's tilt at the Distaff.

Exogenous, second favourite for the Distaff, reared up leaving the tunnel which connects the paddock to the track, unseated jockey Javier Castellano, banged her head heavily on the ground and got one of her hind-legs tangled in the gate.

The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes stitched the Belt of Orion to a celestial textile industry and called it Frigg's Distaff. Frigg was a goddess and wife of Odin, the high god who ruled the Nordic cosmos as a divine patriarch.

Old English lorh, lorg `pole, weaver's beam, distaff' is a rare word.

For thousands of years, fibers had been spun into thread by the action of the hand: the fiber was held on a distaff and was twisted into yarn by turning a spindle.

Down the Bayou and Other Poems (1882) and Distaff and Spindle (1895) followed.

It was common belief that, alone in her house, the witch anointed her feet and shoulders with the fat of a murdered baby, then mounted a broomstick, distaff, or rake, and made her exit by the chimney, to ride through the air to meet the rest of the coven.

THE UNIVERSITY of Mindanao men's and women's volleyball teams will head the roster of entries in the coming 2018 Ateneo Volleyball Summer League Series 2 which gets going this May 5 to 27 at the Ateneo de Davao Jacinto Campus.University of Mindanao will head the 20 entries in the men's division and 16 in the distaff side which will compete for cash prizes and trophies.

Representing the distaff side are National University's Afril Bernardino, Jack Danielle Animam and Gemma Miranda, and Centro Escolar University's Janine Pontejos.

While Castro has lined himself up for the runaway win, a tight race has shaped up in the distaff side with Constantino leading Junia Gabasa, who carded a 77, by a shot.

Seven member schools, except for rebuilding University of Santo Tomas, will vie for the title in the men's division while all eight schools will figure in the distaff side of the one-day tourney serving as a demonstration sport this season.