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"Too Brash, Too Forceful, Or Too Flirty": 2,000 Years Of Dangerous Women

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NewsBunny
06/04/09

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IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
06/04/09

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Centuries from now people will discover empty Smirnoff Ice bottles buried around New Jersey and wonder what evil spirits we were trying to ward off. In reality, it was just a drunk 16 year-old IBleedGlitter not wanting to be caught with alcohol.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/04/09

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I keep a bottle with a can of Coors Light, Axe body spray, and a popped-collar polo to ward off douchebags.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/04/09

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The contents of that jug are pretty tame, considering what else the witch could've put in there...
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Mary McCarthyite
06/04/09

@Mary McCarthyite: ...and by "witch" I meant "sick person." D'oh.
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LaComtesse
06/04/09

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You found my bottle! Thanks London archaeologists!

PS: Italians still bury bottles of broken glass and nails in their yards to keep away the evil eye.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/04/09

@LaComtesse: I know Greek people who ward off the evil eye by putting drops of oil into a bowl of water and, like, meditating upon it. I would like someone with that skill to perform that service for me.
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LaComtesse
06/04/09

@Mary McCarthyite: A woman from my grandma's church came to take the evil eye off her once. There were matches, water, and oil involved. Apparently, it was the one time in 80 years she couldn't break it.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/04/09

@LaComtesse: Ah, yes: there are matches, too. All very mysterious. And, hot damn, someone was hatin' on your grandma!
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tscheese
06/04/09

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"Hmmm, I'm sick! This is unfortunate. Maybe I'll take a bunch of biological bits and pieces from my sick-ass self, and put it all over the place where other people might stumble over it. Yep, that'll certainly help tamp down on disease."

I'm glad I was born in a day and age where we believe in germ theory and flush toilets.
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la.donna.pietra
06/04/09

@tscheese: In their defense, it still sounds more appealing than leeches.
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hatepaperdoll
06/04/09

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Yes! They finally dug that shit up, enjoy the plague of boils, Johen Mydleton, you pig stealing bastard!
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MizJenkins
06/04/09

@hatepaperdoll: LOL!!! WIN!
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
06/04/09

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If I pee on a copy of Maxim and bury it in a bottle in my yard, will I ward off the Patriarchy?
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
06/04/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): COTD!
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YourScreenplaySucks
06/04/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Add a nutcracker, a few tendrils of armpit hair, and a copy of The Feminine Mystique and you might be on to something.
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YourScreenplaySucks
06/04/09

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If witch bottles can successfully ward off illness-causing witches' spells, explain Candace Bushnell's ongoing cultural influence.
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lilbobbytables
06/04/09

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Interesting. I bury that stuff to ward off solicitors.
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Tart of Darkness
11/07/08

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Remember when Jerry Falwell accused we witches of causing the terror attacks on 9/11?

And then strangely Ann Coulter called the 9/11 widows "witches"?

Clearly the only thing lacking here is that they have not been able to motivate unruly mobs to take action.
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I, Zombie Normal
11/07/08

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I've read studies that compared the economic topography of the Salem account's victims and accusers. The vast majority of those accused were agriculturally based, including midwives and herbologists, and the accusers were mostly from the newer settled areas of town, those of the factory/mercantile/merchants persuasion. Add to this religious motivations, and it casts a more capricious view of those that would seek to stifle the voice of those they do not understand.
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Tart of Darkness
11/07/08

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There's also a book called The Devil in the Shape of a Woman about witchcraft accusations in New England. One motivation to accuse people, especially women who owned their own property, of witchcraft is that if they were convicted, you got their stuff. So let's say Widow Jones owns the adjacent hectare that's more fertile than yours. Suddenly your cow goes dry and you maintain along with some interested parties that you saw her hex your cow. Widow Jones goes to the gallows and you've doubled the size of your landholdings.
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Dauphine
11/07/08

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Today's witchhunts/witchcraft-accusations are modern psychiatry, in which women are the vast receivers of diagnoses. At least in the Western world.

In Amazonia/Africa, witchcraft and sorcery is still alive and well. The integration of modern medicinal practices into it is kinda nifty.
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Tart of Darkness
11/07/08

@Dauphine: Your must know my old clinical supervisor who diagnosed every woman that walked through his door as "Borderline Personality Disorder".

My fave was this situation where a kid was acting out right after his father packed his suitcase in front of him one night and said "I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, so this is goodbye, son". My supervisor's verdict? The kid's mom had BPD.
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Vicodiva
11/07/08

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True fact. All that burning & hanging happened west of the 1054 divide. And that's what the texts on the matter are not telling anyone.
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Tart of Darkness
11/07/08

@Vicodiva: I'm sorry. I don't understand the significance of that and why the texts wouldn't mention it.
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