Strange Brew by John Deering for March 04, 2024

Scarabs are dung beetles, so definitely not an appealing thing to have infesting your eternal resting place.

I thought I knew a lot about scarabs … sacred beetle, symbol of the Egyptian sun god, who was represented as being scarab-faced, and who represented sunrise, creation and resurrection … but this is the first I have ever heard of its connection to dung beetles! Thanks for the info.

Feeling itchy? You may have sand crabs!

What are the scarabs in The Mummy?

Are Those Flesh-Eating Scarabs from The Mummy Real? | SYFY WIREIn the mythos of the film, scarabs are carnivorous insects travelling in large numbers, capable of stripping the flesh from a person in seconds. They also play a key role in the movie’s inciting incident, the Hom-Dai ritual used to punish Imhotep.Sep 17, 2023

Shouldn’t he have said, “Ya’ll were right, cousin, ya gots scarabs.” He is from Memphis, Egypt, after all.

Make sure that you get a Pharoah price on the extermination, Mrs R. Some of those companies will rip you off.

I paid him a lot of money to get rid of the beetles, but Egypt me.

And that’s what makes her walk like an Egyptian.

Oh, Shiitt!

Scarabs, the original Beetlemania.

well, that’s better than scabies’

Suddenly having crabs isn’t quite the social stigmata it used to be…