Posted on 04/11/2021 9:34:23 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1670, a 70-year-old upstanding Edinburgher went to the stake for confessing — unbidden — to witchcraft.
The “Wizard of West Bow” had had a distinguished military career and an exactingly pious public life among Edinburgh’s strictest Presbyterians. So it came as something of a surprise when, after being struck by an illness, he up and copped to a lifelong sexual relationship with his sister Jean … and a lifetime of hitherto unknown black arts, powered by a Satanic walking-staff. He was so far from being suspect that town elders at first thought him daft.
Only when Jean backed his story with the sort of details to give vapors to the “Bowhead Saints” neighborhood did things get serious. She especially warned about that staff.
So on this day, the dumbfounded city worthies had to tote one of their own to the area around Edinburgh’s modern Pilrig Street and have him strangled and burnt at the stake. Whatever moved Weir to issue his damning (literally!) admission, he was plainly quite in earnest: when asked to pray at the stake, he shot back, “Let me alone, I will not. I have lived as a beast, and I must die as a beast.” The staff was thrown onto the pyre with him; it was said to burn abnormally slowly.
Inspired by Thomas Weir?
His sister was hanged shortly thereafter for the same offenses, scandalizing her upstanding neighbors by tearing her clothes off on the way to the scaffold...
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Today they would have their own talk show and podcast.
Any pics of sis?
There are a few muddy paintings of him
They appear to be blonde or sandy haired folk
Figures
Doesn’t that just make you trip
I never carried a voodoo staff or banged the sister I didn’t have on LSD....early 70s LSD....real LSD
Nor did I Satan worship which just goes to show Southern Baptist Church prevails over Mr Hoffman’s discovery
But I did strip naked a few times and jump in the lake or gulf
Yipes! Quite a tale. Prayers up.
his long career of bestiality. he not only confessed to this but had been caught at it and had it hushed up on the strength of his reputation and the accuser punished in his stead.
So yes, this sounds like a prominent Democrat, especially the part about his accuser being punished.
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