Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 09:40:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Witch's Milk: FAQ
Hi, see what I get for breaking Aphroditian taboos and posting instead
of toasting on Friday?
I've been informed that the term Witch's milk is also extended to
medical phenomena regarding lactation
coincident with ovulation, and lactating babies.
(Obviously yet another malformity caused by Witches.
Considering the reference I posted, and its title, I guess the would-be
axe milker had better brace for disappointment.
Okay, unless anyone can figure out why archaic cow-scat phrases uddered,
er, uttered by milkmaids have *roint* or *roynt* in them, there is no
info on Witch's-Milk-From-Axe-Handles-And-Other-Amazing-Magic on the Web
to the best of my questionable and dubious knowledge....
Agree? Disagree?
(FWIW, I'm certainly having a terrible time trying to think of any way
in which the two phenomena are connected.)
Humblest apologies,
&
Peace!
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*****
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:33:25 -0700
Subject: Witch's Milk: *The Woolgathering* Story At Last...
Good Mornin'.
Many moons ago I posted some inquiries about a
mystical feat I call *Woolgathering*; probably this is more of *Forming
the cloud*... a mystic seems to gather handfuls of an invisible stuff
from the air
I don't know if I should consider this technique any different than what
would occur if the accounts of witches making milk flow from axe handles
and other objects, if the accounts in Emile Grillot de Givry's book are
at all true.
This also considers that the Powder of Palingenics and the Powder of
Sympathy
The reference in Question in Madame Blavatsky's *Isis Unveiled*, pg
609-610. As anticipated, I could only find it by first finding Steve
Richard's book, *Invisibility*, and then looking up Palingenics.
Here, then, in the chapter in Richard's book, where the anecdote is also
presented, the chapter being entitled, "Ectoplasm, and All That*
(Re: Buckland, I'm getting a lot of mail off another list about
Witch's Milk, the other meaning, the little medical anomalies surounding
lactation. The confusion of course, some of which I almost helped create
by prematurely posting a reference to a medical journal right here on
this very list, might be stemmed from shadowing the incomparable light
of the magical kind, were physicians to use as much sensitivity in their
choice of slang terms as is required in Buckland's *Complete
Handbook...* of insensitive townsfolk; picking up Buckland after
Cunningham, the anecdote about the participants of a town's festivities
having been made to do something less insulting to Witches than burn a
witch in effigy for Halloween gives me a good deal of courage...)
FWIW: Will go through Yeat's famous poetry looking for allegories about
this fabulous feat as well, when I get around to that...
B*B & farewell for now, I gotta go garden.
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
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*****
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:52:01 -0700
Subject: On Buckland...
M*M
Hiya, posted some of my Buckland comments under Witch's Milk, but
really…
I already had most of Cunningham's stuff and had been springboardng out
of his bibliographies at the time when I bought Buckland's big book, so
it's largely some tidbits on herbalism and the encouraging civil rights
story (*Thou shalt NOT *Burn the Witch* for Halloween*) that were
rewarding to me. No complaints here.
When I bought *Scottish Witchcraft* some time later, (well you know me,
I was hoping for instructions on using a bagpipe as an interferometric
ectoplasm synthesizer, eh?) I was a little disappointed, chiding the
book as the Buckland Boy Scout manual; a wee bit later when I had do do
my *Dianic* stuff backwards, having done last things first due to lack
of pagan parenting, I realized that, at least in terms of just beginning
in magic, it is that book which is closest to the sprit of the
traditions of one's earliest Artemis (The classic Ephesian.*Eat pine
nuts, drink pine dew, and sit your *ss under the first pine tree you
find until someone comes to get you*), and some strong Biblical ones as
well (such as Artemis' Wormwoods in lieu of unleaven bread. See: Bitter
tonics, dangers of carbo loading, etc), for putting emphasis on
maintaining sancity of life through simple survival.
...Never did run into any of his others when I was in a prosperous
state...
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772/ 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368. Donations accepted include Seeds; write for details.
*****
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:32:35 -0700
Subject: A Veritable Cornucopia...
What, no Mango Skittles? I kinda like these Dead Can Dance guys after
all
Soon will be deciding between server and no hardware or vice versa...
Oh, yeah, subject line, ok, sure.
*We* Chronosian priests are supposed to be keepers of the Cornucopia.
Humanity gone downhill, my best guess is that a Cornucopia is a quantum
singularity resonator that has enough property conservation to set up
it's own accretion disc if you tickle it. This accretion power is
transferred to othe regions than the mouth of the horn, and to other
elements than calcium.
One of the nice things about Einstien stuff is that the Law of
Conservation of Matter and Energy (*e=t=s*) in my warped imagination
means that it has to come out somewhere if you put a cap on it, and
always prefers next door. Try thinking that one the Philadelphia
experiment sometime
Thus displacement is or oughtta be one of the oldest tricks in the book,
no trouble there. Sounds
like the usual was to displace the accretion involving mostly dusting
the Cornucopia with chalk dust or other calciferous, probably
non-phosphorus, mineral.
The displacement, holographically, of a black hole can be seen
apparently by Paralastor specie wasps
who use it as a blueprint for their nest bulding it looks like
Typical for the endlessly resourceful Chronos guild of Capricornian
ones, there are more ways to skin this particular cat than anything else
ancient that looks like it to beam food on the table.
This icon was also called a worm and affiliated with the Wormwood
purveyors, priestesses of Artemis, who rules those Artemisia species.
And many others, the ancient Elysian (Elusinian) code is Not limited to
Amalthea as a key.
Okay, so I'm just iMAGIning this stuff. So? :-)
...If I ever pull out of my funk here, I'm gonna talk about (I really
mean talk here) about these Plant Miracles. (Thinking subtractively,
maybe the worst weeds in your yard already know much more about this
than you think...)
My personal favorite is the Grim Reaper's (=Chronos, Grain Repairman)
whose magickal sickle activates ambient hologrammata so that several
seconds after he cuts the grain, the stalks are magically repaired.
Makes laser scanners look like poodle meat. Tradeya for three Silver
Broomsticks?
...Of course, I am often restored to humility by persons telling me to
turn my head and cough...
Incoherent Cheers,
(I-gotta-hear-Someone-say-it, really)
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772/ 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368. Donations accepted include Seeds; write for
details.
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