[lbo-talk] Re: communist witches were not spectral

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 23 07:35:49 PST 2006


I just don't see it. Innocent doesn't say that witches are, say, "appealing to naive or sinful women to commit the blasphemy of killing their babies in the womb." He refers to them blasting said children in the womb in a hostile fashion, just like he accuses them of sicing spells on livestock and grown men and women. He's thinking of a group of people in a circle in the wood kissing the butt (literally) of the Black Man, saying moogly-moogly words to curse the local village and then flying off on their brooms. That's quite far away from someone giving somebody else contraceptives. (Was contraception really so hard to get in this era? A condom is not exactly high-tech.)

Maybe this is one of those things like everybody and his mother interpreting Red Cavalry as a meditation on the Jewish Condition, which I just did not get from the book at all. Maybe I'm being obtuse.

--- JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: Making women sterile. Temporary sterility is the result of taking various of the herbs which are recorded as used for contraception and abortion. (In other words, these abortifacients also have the property of making you sterile.) And, there's a fine line between an early miscarriage and a late menstrual cycle. Might all look like sterility.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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