Witches, it was believed, went unbelted.
May. 26th, 2008 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Lookin' up Russian folklore and fairy tales, particularly death folklore. I love Baba Yaga stories, but I realized I haven't read that many, and I conflate Baba Yaga with the fairytale function of witches in general, which naturally has been highly informed by Grimm's fairytales. Russian folklore is amazing. I wish I still had Gail around so I could ask her stuff.
This is proving to be very useful.
This is proving to be very useful.
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Date: 2008-05-27 07:38 pm (UTC)Would that Zep decides to do one of those oral histories like the Beatles and the Stones did . . . that'd be a good tie-in with the tour this autumn (cross your fingers, knock wood, do a little fake Crowleyan magick), dontcha think?
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Date: 2008-05-27 06:54 pm (UTC)Recent excavations of so-called 'hill forts' (truly defended settlements) show that people were killed so as to be buried in symbolically important locations. So much for the back to nature brigade; folklore is fascinating stuff, but when we look for a rationale behind its early manifestations, it is not at all pleasant. It's homicidal.
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Date: 2008-05-27 07:00 pm (UTC)Terry Pratchett taught me this! It irks me sometimes how fairy tales and folklore and superstitions get whitewashed or handwaved away as silliness--our society places such an emphasis on rationality that it's sometimes hard to remember that "superstitions" were things that people lived and died by.