Witches!!!!!!!

[scheherazade_79]

LOL

I know of a much more mundane explanation.
Seems there was a habit of leaping with sticks after harvest. Probably something to do with chasing bad spirits away. If you looked at it from a distance it would seem the women were flying through the air.

Were they naked when they did it? I would have loved to watch!

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

We shoot witches where I'm from.... but not in a cruel way, we always give them plenty of time to conjure up "bulletproofness".

 

[scheherazade_79]

We shoot witches where I'm from.... but not in a cruel way, we always give them plenty of time to conjure up "bulletproofness".

I'll bear that in mind next time I'm flying over

 

[patrick1]

Heck, and there was me thinking the broomstick was 'the rod that penetrates the bush', just goes to show I have sex on the brain.

patrick

The broomstick or brush is also an old symbol used in pagan marriage. I live 'over the brush', i.e. unmarried to my partner. Hey, even Elvis thought it was a good idea: 'Come on little baby, let's jump the broomstick, c'mon let's tie the kno-o-ot...'

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Don't know if this is of any interest to anyone, but I read an article a couple of years back where the writer was trying to unravel the myth of witches flying on broomsticks. Apparently, hundreds of years ago there were women who actually did 'ride' broomsticks. They used to coat the end in a herbal solution that made them hallucinate and feel like they were flying.

You can still get herbs and such for flying, I think it was the ergot that got em to be honest.

Wish I could hear from some more true Wiccans, especially the solitary practitioners.

 

[scheherazade_79]

You can still get herbs and such for flying, I think it was the ergot that got em to be honest.

Can you buy them from a health food store?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Can you buy them from a health food store?

I'll have to check.....I know you can order such things online. I was just in Salem and I saw them there. Wiccan sights will give you spells also.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I'll have to check.....I know you can order such things online. I was just in Salem and I saw them there. Wiccan sights will give you spells also.

Excellent! I'll be looking into that. If you don't hear from me for a while, just look to the skies!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Excellent! I'll be looking into that. If you don't hear from me for a while, just look to the skies!

Take my sheets off the line incase of accidents!....let me know what you find.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Pupil appeals over Harry Potter "witchcraft"




JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African schoolboy has appealed to education authorities after refusing to answer an exam question on Harry Potter (news - web sites) because he believes the best-selling children's' books promote witchcraft.



Eighteen-year-old John Smit did not answer a comprehension question on a review of one of J.K. Rowling (news - web sites)'s books on the boy wizard, worth 30 percent of his English exam.


"He wouldn't answer it because it supports witchcraft, and we're against witchcraft ... the Bible is against witchcraft," Smit's mother, who did not wish to give her first name, told Reuters on Monday.


The family has written to provincial director of examinations to complain. Authorities have yet to respond.


"I hope they will give him his average mark. This shouldn't happen again," she said.


African Christian Democratic Party MP Cheryllyn Dudley said South Africa needed a clear policy to avoid other pupils facing moral dilemmas during exams.


"I have read (Harry Potter books), I have researched them thoroughly, and my personal opinion is that they are witchcraft manuals," Dudley told Reuters.