Are there any witches here?

[Ivor the Engineer]

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So definitly not a good phallic object.

I prefer airplanes myself, most modern witches do...

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These will probably be right up your alley then, so to speak.

 

[RSLancastr]

My ex-wife is a witch.

Seriously. She became a Wiccan during the final years f our marriage.

She kept a witchy-looking broom hanging in the kitchen, but never rode it, as far as I know.

Hell, she rarely rode me, let alone a broom.

 

[Dancing David]

My ex-wife is a witch.

Seriously. She became a Wiccan during the final years f our marriage.

She kept a witchy-looking broom hanging in the kitchen, but never rode it, as far as I know.

Hell, she rarely rode me, let alone a broom.

Well, different pitches for different witches. Most of the female wiccans I know have a high libido. But about one third are crazy as they get as well.

Funny thing I have been a wiccan since 1980 or so, my exwife who I married is 1983 did not become a wiccan until after we seperated in 1992, about 1996.

She wasn't attracted to me (and almost celibate when we seperated) because it was a control issue for her, but she sure cut a wide path after I left her. Things are strange sometimes.

 

[BTMO]

Ok, so witches / wiccans / others who might know...

Which of you witches can fly on brooms?

 

[Orphia Nay]

Ok, so witches / wiccans / others who might know...

Which of you witches can fly on brooms?

Didn't you see the video posted above of a verified witch riding a broomstick?

Oh, I forgot. The Ministry of Magic modified your memory.

 

[Alley Cat]

The last time I rode anything resembling a broomstick was 10 years ago. It was a much used second-hand object, and maybe the Moon was in the wrong phase or something because it wasn't the Happy Experience I was expecting. I was glad to get off it at the time. Maybe one day someone will present me with a super-powered shiny throbbing broomstick which I just can't resist... but I did like that old one. I often dream about it of a Full Moon...

 

[BTMO]

Didn't you see the video posted above of a verified witch riding a broomstick?

Oh, I forgot. The Ministry of Magic modified your memory.

I *didn't* see it!!

Or maybe you are right about the memory modification. Coz I can't find the link...

 

[Orphia Nay]

I *didn't* see it!!

Or maybe you are right about the memory modification. Coz I can't find the link...

Oops, I didn't mean to make you look!

It was a Harry Potter joke. (Us "muggles" aren't allowed to see magic, and if we do, the Ministry of Magic modifies our memories.)

 

[BTMO]

Oops, I didn't mean to make you look!

It was a Harry Potter joke. (Us "muggles" aren't allowed to see magic, and if we do, the Ministry of Magic modifies our memories.)

Ah! That'd be why I didn't get it. I am not really in to Harry Potter.

All seems a bit... twee.

 

[Toke]

I have a problem with believing in the flying balm thing. The dosage issues sounds rather risky and the rest of the broom sound rather unwieldy.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Ah! That'd be why I didn't get it. I am not really in to Harry Potter.

All seems a bit... twee.

Well, perhaps it's twee to a barechested, hunting, fishing, hunk of a man like yourself...

But there really are some heavy concepts addressed in the books.

 

[BTMO]

Well, perhaps it's twee to a barechested, hunting, fishing, hunk of a man like yourself...

But there really are some heavy concepts addressed in the books.

I am going to Rome and Egypt next week (well... on the 14th), to look at pyramids and stuff...

 

[Akhenaten]

My ex-wife is a witch.

<removed by a snipping spell>

That's the accepted definition, I believe.

I am going to Rome and Egypt next week (well... on the 14th), to look at pyramids and stuff...

Carry your bags, Sir?

 

[Orphia Nay]

I am going to Rome and Egypt next week (well... on the 14th), to look at pyramids and stuff...

That's right, and didn't you say you were going to Petra in Jordan as well?

Got room in your backpack for me?

 

[the_eye]

I find it very ironic that closest thing to real witches in the Middle Ages, the Cunning folk (practiced folk magic), often attributed their magical powers to Jesus, Mary and various saints. The Cunning folk were often priests.

The Modern group are bunch of Posers.

 

[BTMO]

Carry your bags, Sir?

Just to the airport will be fine...

That's right, and didn't you say you were going to Petra in Jordan as well?

Got room in your backpack for me?

I am, and sure. Why not. Can you be at Wellington airport at about 10 am next Monday?

I'm sure my partner will understand - she is good like that. She indulges me...

 

[Big Les]

The origin of the vaginal application hypothesis, as well as the (fairly weak) historical support for it, is over at the Straight Dope website;

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1344/whats-the-deal-with-witches-and-broomsticks

The sources are two of those already linked to in this thread - the author of 'The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft' in Hallucinogens and Shamanism (1973), Michael J. Harner]

...buttresses his thesis with some choice quotes. From a witchcraft investigation in 1324: "In rifleing the closet of the ladie, they found a Pipe of oyntment, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon the which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin." Also this from around 1470: "But the vulgar believe, and the witches confess, that on certain days or nights they anoint a staff and ride on it to the appointed place or anoint themselves under the arms and in other hairy places."