In the parish church St Mary The Virgin at Minster-in-Thanet
is what I recon is the oldest known depiction of a witch on a broomstick. In
this instance they “got the carver’s name” so the carvings are datable, to
between 1410 and 1419.
Either this is a carving of a witch, with his or her
familiars riding on a broomstick, or a carving of a senior citizen dealing with
some sort of difficult personal problem, using a stick of some sort, while his
or her pets look on.
Before I was a shop assistant I was a mechanic of sorts, so
I am not really qualified to issue opinions in the area of this type of
wosisname, however, as the other related carvings show demons and the like, see http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/photos-of-misericords-of-st-mary-virgin.html
I’m going with this interpretation. You gentle reader, doubtless don’t
necessarily feel what I feel, so I will leave the analysis up to you.
Now in the world of mechanics, you may think that everything
is much more straightforward than in the occult world, but at the cutting
edge, if you think you understand it; the best senior mechanics can come up with,
is:- “You are either crazy or lying.”
When it comes to the spiritual world, I am an Anglican, this
roughly equates to while other denominations probably pray for god to appear on
a cloud and perform a miracle, I am just pleased not to have been struck by a
thunderbolt.
Anyway at the end of last week I bought a fairly large
collection of books on the subject of. What? Well when a customer comes into
the bookshop and says. “Where’s your unexplained?” It’s. That type of kidney.
The thing with these books is, that in a bookshop most books
seem to breed, so if I leave a pile of books say on quantum theory on my desk
overnight, in the morning I often have a bigger pile. It’s a little know fact
that book cases were invented to help try and prevent this from happening, the
misunderstanding that they are only for book storage can lead to complications.
Sorry I digress, the thing with this book collection is that
it seems to be shrinking, pile them up at night and in the morning the piles
are noticeably shorter. Anyway the pictures of the witchy books are starting to
appear on my bookshop’s blog, at http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-real-witches-coven-in-bookshop.html
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