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sionnach commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
mouldy grain consumption ---> ergot poisoning ---> convulsions, hallucinations, mania, psychosis ---> accusations of witchcraft ---> deterioration of community relations ---> stake-burning and witch-bobbing
or possibly just ---> St Anthony's fire ---> gangrene ---> limb amputation or paralysis ---> death (ritual bog burial and sphagnopreservation optional)
November 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
I think "accusations of witchcraft" comes after "deterioration of community relations."
But maybe that's just me.
November 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
This is such a pleasant page.
November 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
There's a road in Virginia Beach called Witch Duck Road. Give you three guesses what local water landmark it's named for. (Hint: It's not the beach.)
November 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Witch Duck Bay?
November 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Close. It was a pond or lake they used to test if women accused of witchcraft could float. Of course, with a hand bound to the opposite foot, it's kind of hard to float.
November 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
*throws the bear in*
November 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Will it float?
November 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Do not throw the bear. No bear throwing permitted.
November 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
*eats bilby*
*belches*
November 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Do not eat the bilby. No bilby eating permitted.
November 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
*vomits*
Ecch. Too leathery. Wait... does it float?
November 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
You're polluting the witch pond, you two!
November 22, 2008
dontcry commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
What floats? Small rocks...?
November 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
*pokes bilby*
November 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
I heard a whisper that whichbe's a witch.
November 22, 2008
sionnach commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
I wonder, during witch-bobbing trials, at what point of the victim's sinking, it finally dawned on the mob that she was, in fact, innocent. Did they have to wait until she had actually drowned, to declare posthumous innocence?
November 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Sometimes the accused did drown after it became clear she was innocent, yes. I don't think there was a prescribed length of time to wait, which made it dependent on the kindness(-less) of one's neighbors (in many cases the same people who were accusing you).
November 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Yes indeed - lots of times they were just waiting to grab your cottage, or your cow, or your magic beans, or the whole kit and caboodle.
November 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Or they just thought certain individuals were weird because they were old, or preferred living alone, or any number of individual characteristics.
Groupthink is really scary.
November 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
According to my guide in Edinburgh, accused witches were also dunked in the Norloch for the crime of having red hair. Which is a wee bit macabre-funny, given that Scotland and the ginger-haired look (think bearded clansman on tartan tin) are almost synonymous in my mind.
November 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Ducks float.
November 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
But not all of them are innocent.
November 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Yea, verily. And some shall be consigned to the fiery furnace of the thanksgiving turducken as punishment for their skullduckery.
Anserine anarchy has no place in the new Amurka.
November 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Wood floats too. Therefore...
November 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Oh, forget it; we're all going to hell.
November 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
Wood floats too. Therefore...
"it's a WITCH!
November 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
A WITCH!
November 26, 2008
whichbe commented on the word eating mouldy grain products
This conversation is setting off my snider senses.
November 26, 2008