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i thought it was ironic that at the start of the programme they were talking about the modern-day shamans that still exist, and then at the end they were saying that nobody practices magic anymore.
poorly researched, shittily directed, wheeled out the same history pundits as every other programme ever, spent a lot of money on morphing effects.
nothing about crowley, definitely nothing about chaos magick, not even a thing about wicca!
oh, and the incredibly tenuous stretching of the point re: why witched were supposed to ride brooms was absolutely fucking hilarious in its ridicularity. they claimed that maybe it was because the old herby women mixed up a potion of stuff that might have included mandrake (which was hallucinogenic, as we all know, not to mention poisonous), and they would smear it onto their broom-handle and then straddle it to apply the mixture to their womanly-bits when they had period pains. the combination of hallucinogens and positioning might have led women to believe they were actually flying on the broom and this is supposedly where the whole idea of witches flying on brooms started.
riiiight. because of course non-toxic raspberry leaves wouldn't be widely available, and toxic mandrake which was alleged to kill you by screaming if you picked it was. uh-huh. and of course, if you were to apply a potion to your nether bits, you'd straddle the handle of a daily household object. fucksake. even say they did apply a potion that way (which is frankly fucking ridiculous, even for the middle ages), surely they'd more likely have a special straddle-stick for that? seeing as womenly-bits were a taboo subject? |
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