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Broomstick Bike Is Perfect Vehicle for Wannabe Witches
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Ever.
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Great reading here, and good for a few larfs, which is exactly what I need right now. :)
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That's your sexy-time-fun-fact for the day.
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[www.pantheon.org]
"Take the old broom, for instance. A witch never really rode it through the air, of course. Where did this bizarre story come from?
The answer is surprisingly simple. Witches used long, dark wooden poles to perform a special fertility dance. They rode the pole as if it was a hobbyhorse, and jumped as high into the air as possible. They believed that the higher they jumped, the better the crops could grow. Sometimes they "rode" the poles to their nightly gatherings, jumping up and down all the way."
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[bxrrebellion.blogspot.com]
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[en.wikipedia.org]
The generally accepted theory about the origins of witches and flying with their brooms is based in a ritual involving a psychoactive drug trip. The witches would prepare a flying ointment to aid them in their journey. There are many recipes for this ointment all having a base of either Atropa belladonna or Mandragora officinarum, both highly psychoactive drugs producing visions and encouraging astral projection.[1] The ointment was rubbed all over the body using the broom with a personal account given by one witch who described the act of rubbing the ointment on her hands and feet which gave a sensation of flying. [2]
Witches mounted broomsticks and would leap around the fields, smeared with the flying ointment, to "teach" the crops how high to grow. The ointment would give them imaginary "trips" so they thought they flew distances.
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Carry on.
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(He posted, knowing full well that he'd ended with a preposition, but not giving a damn!)
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