Vanity- Hahaha Hillary says smoke, no fire. I always said she couldn't get her broom lit.

[Cats Pajamas]

Couldn't resist.

[WKUHilltopper]

So that’s why she coughs her head off all the time. All the smoke of her felonies that haven’t burst into flames yet.

[euram]

no fire, but it’s like a smoldering garbage dump, giving off really toxic, and in some cases, deadly fumes.

[BigEdLB]

life imitates art

[Heart of Georgia]

Oh my gosh! If that’s real, they must airbrush the stew out of her!!

[Cats Pajamas]

[oldtech]

Wonder where she thought the smoke was coming from.

[Blood of Tyrants]

More people die of smoke inhalation than from being burned to death.

[Cats Pajamas]

Now Queenie needs a foot stool to go with the special pillows.

[Terry L Smith]

By all reports that are out there, on Youtube and others, ol’ hillary cannot really use ‘a witch’s broom’, and here is why:

By definition, a ‘witch’s broom’, inside the straw that makes up what we know as the broom, is a phallic symbol. The broom is rode ‘whisk end first’ (opposite of all the cartoonish broom riding witches).

Hillary cannot ride such a broom, since it has been established by Bill’s former lover on video, that Hillary is a lesbian.

[Cats Pajamas]

Well actually don’t a lot of lesbians use prosthetic phallus substitutes on their partners?

[oldasrocks]

Smoke coming out of her ???? In other words a flameout.

[Terry L Smith]

dear cat,

re; “Well actually don’t a lot of lesbians use prosthetic phallus substitutes on their partners?”

It is not the same thing, although you might think it is.

The broom is a symbol of the unity of the God and Goddess.
(Think on what I described for a moment.)

It is not something fleshly sexual.

As to your question, I think you are old enough to do your own research on that.

[Cats Pajamas]

All along I thought it was -— A Broom is a Wicca symbol of the power to rise above the earthly plane, and to fly in spirit realms.

I remember seeing a book once (and, oh, I so wish I hadn’t left it behind!) that explained the potion to make a Witch’s broom fly.

Unfortunately, I don’t have even its title. But I remember this: It said that Witch’s “flew” by means of an hallucinogenic ointment, which, rubbed on the broomstick and mounted by the Witch, would absorb through her labial tissue. Then she would experience a flight of the mind.

I believe that brooms as a phallic symbol also echo Tantric wisdom — the levels of consciousness that can be reached through properly channeled sexual ecstacy.

(Doesn’t that make the wedding custom of Jumping The Broom just shine with spiritual potential?)

Nowadays, though, brooms are generally reserved for clearing energy in sacred space, and brushing away negative influences.

This is, in fact, what may have associated Witches with brooms in the first place. According to Walker . . .

“The broom had been associated with female magic ... ever since ancient Rome, where sacred midwives used special broomsticks to sweep the threshold of the house after childbirth, to repel evil influences from mothers and their babes.”

Help me in my ignorance please?

[Cats Pajamas]

Okay Terry. I think this may be what you were alluding to. As a ritual tool it is both masculine and feminine, the handle masculine in nature and the birch bristles feminine. The handle is plunged into and attached to the bristles, a perfect union of male and female energies. Besom (Broom) A witches Besom is traditionally made with an ash handle and birch twigs that are tied on with pieces of willow wood. The ash stick provides magickal protection and the birch twigs are meant to entangle malicious spirits. Willow twigs may be substituted, as they belong to the sacred tree of Hecate. As a ritual tool it is both masculine and feminine, the handle masculine in nature and the birch bristles feminine. The handle is plunged into and attached to the bristles, a perfect union of male and female energies. The broom represents the Element of Air. The fantasy images of witches riding about on broomsticks are based on actual fact. Pagan Western European fertility rites involved women straddling the broom and riding it like a horse, around the fields to encourage crops. Brooms have always been a symbol of women's domesticity. A woman would push her broom up the chimney or prop it outside the door to indicate that she was out of the house. The broom, a tool kept in all households and used by all women became a tool and symbol of witchcraft. It was an easy leap to believe that witches could hop on their broom and fly up the chimney! It has been said that Witches Flying Oil, a concoction made from aconite, belladonna, hemlock and henbane was rubbed on the handle of the broomstick before being "ridden" to Sabbats or Moon rituals. This would deliver the drugs topically. The powerful hallucinogenic ingredients combined with ecstatic chanting and dancing could very well cause the drug- induced hallucination of soaring through the air. Today the besom's fertility magick symbolism is evident during the Wiccan handfasting custom of "jumping the broom". The besom was considered an attribute of Hecate in ancient Greece. In modern Wicca the besom is a symbol of witchcraft and a reminder of times not so long past when we were persecuted for our beliefs. It is used to cleanse and purify sacred space by sweeping away baneful energy. There are various uses for brooms in magick: ◾Single use ritual brooms can be loosely put together, then burned or taken apart following use. ◾Special magickal brooms that are only used during rituals. ◾Plain household brooms can be used to magickally cleanse and purify your home. ◾Small handmade besoms may be decorated and placed on the Altar Some traditions of Wicca say that your besom must never touch the floor and must only be used as a ritual tool. Others traditions hold that the power of your besom can be used for all manner or magickal and mundane work. Not everyone has the means to possess an array of tools reserved specifically for ritual use. Mundane activities, such as sweeping your kitchen floor, can be magickal with the correct intentions.

[Terry L Smith]

dear cats,

YOU WIN THE CUPIE DOLL!

[Terry L Smith]

dear cats, <> 1. 'Witch's fly ointment' is an ointment that is used to aid the witch 'move through the planes', not the broom. <> 2. I believe that the book you reference was authored by either Doreen Valiente or Ms. Cabot, of Salem, MA. I do not find it in any Cunningham's books, which pre-date any of the second or third wave of authors re-writing what has already been in print. <> 3. I suggest you look into the Lingum vitae stones from India for a more detailed examiination. <<(Doesn’t that make the wedding custom of Jumping The Broom just shine with spiritual potential?) Nowadays, though, brooms are generally reserved for clearing energy in sacred space, and brushing away negative influences.>> 4. The broom was lain at the doorstop, after the cleansing, and the bride and groom would jump the broom, entering a cleansed home and a new life. To step on the broom, would carry all that stuff right back inside. <> 5. Don't forget that the broom would be straddled in the early stage of the growing season, and the witch would be seen jumping in the field. Why? The witch is showing the crops how high to grow. Help me in my ignorance please? I hope that this helps.

[Cats Pajamas]

Wow you are a fountain. Yes it was enlightening. Your time was appreciated.

[Terry L Smith]

dear cats,

thank you for your vote of confidence re all that info.

sometimes, just sometimes, the folks you run with, even if for a while, can make it so you have a more rounded perspective of things.

Enjoy your Friday .... (new moon on the 1st!)