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'Clue' was originally a ball of thread

A clew was the thread Theseus used to escape the labyrinth. The word came to mean anything guiding you to an answer.

Greek sarkazein described dogs stripping meat from bone, a brutally accurate image for cutting remarks.

Greeks blamed sudden irrational terror in lonely forests on Pan, the goat-legged god of wild places.