| furtherfield on Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:35:17 +0000 |
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Witches Today Witches have made the headlines lately, both in Germany and England. Mob - violence is reported from Franconia, a Catholic province with a somewhat backward peasant population, against half-crazed old women accused of bewitching their neighbours. Farmer Sepp's best cow dies mysteriously, lice infest his house, his well dries up, his wife miscarries. Who is to blame? Mitzi, of course, who lives at the end of the lane and once mumbled something nasty when farmer Sepp accused her of stealing his apples. Nobody likes Old Mitzi, and the cat is doubtless a demonic familiar. ? Julius Streicher, Nazi editor of Der Sturmer and Gouleiter of Franconia, exploited these old-fashioned witch hunting instincts when he blamed the Jews for all Germany's ills. ? Robert Graves (1963) -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <[email protected]> to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate [email protected]