[lbo-talk] Another obscure question (on witches this time)

[Jim Straub]

Admittedly, Gravity's Rainbow is a bad place for me to be getting my
history, but regadless I do have the impression that the early British
intelligence services during ww2 had more than a few occult practitioners of
various types enlisted on the payroll, just hedging bets to avoid even
potentially losing any arms races to the nazis perhaps...

Or maybe that the Nazis would pick up the D-Day date


> from her, using _their_ dark forces. (Hitler used an
> astrologer.) If their theory was what you suggest,
> she'd have been liable for espionage and treason, and
> subject to capital punishment, as under the old
> Witchcraft Act. Hey, I don't write the law, I'm just
> telling you what it says.
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