http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5784514Oh my.
Scratch yet another topic off the list of things primitives haven't discussed yet.
Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-04-09 02:55 PM
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17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found
Ok...who wants to follow Coulter and Malkin around, waiting for them to take a leak?
Discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period
During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."
This spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy, was particularly common from the 16th to the 17th centuries, so the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period, according to a report published in the latest British Archaeology.
Lead researcher Alan Massey, a former chemist and honorary fellow of Loughborough University, believes "the objects found in witch bottles verify the authenticity of contemporary recipes given for anti-witchcraft devices, which might otherwise have been dismissed by us as being too ridiculous and outrageous to believe."
An Old Bailey court record from 1682 documents that a husband, believing his wife to be afflicted by witchcraft, was advised by a Spitalfields apothecary to "take a quart of your Wive's urine, the paring of her Nails, some of her Hair, and such like, and boyl them well in a Pipkin."
More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31107319/
Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-04-09 02:57 PM
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1. Coulter and Malkin?
Calling them witches is an insult to half the people I know.
supernova (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-04-09 02:58 PM
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2. I guess that's better than burning her at the stake or waterboarding her.
VelmaD (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-04-09 02:58 PM
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3. thanks for hauling out the ugly old canard...that a disagreeable woman must be a witch.
In case one doesn't know this, the Thelma primitive alleges herself to be a witch.
The Thelma primitive was active in the Scamdal.
I'm not sure if it was the Thelma primitive, or some other primitive alleging to be a witch, who on the Mike Malloy discussion board "cast spells" on franksolich.
As she was doing that, I was sprinkling Holy Water on the computer screen.
It needed cleaned anyway.
The shadowy primitive, who'd cut off his dick if that's what it took to get him those free social security disability checks:
shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-04-09 05:44 PM
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26. Thank you. I said much the same in a lower thread
It's still fine to bash Pagans on this board because our ideas are so "crazy".
The primitives finally figure out it's an old unemptied sort of chamber-pot.
