Posted on 11/08/2022 11:20:09 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1641, one of Denmark’s most famous witches suffered at the stake.
Maren Splid, Spliid, or Splids (English Wikipedia entry | Danish) remains a paradigmatic exemplar of the witch-hunt’s terrifying capacity to make magicians of anyone some neighbor might one day accuse. In Splids’s case, the neighbor was a competitor of her prosperous husband, a tailor in the Jutland town of Ribe; the commercial motive obviously suggests itself but one dismisses superstitious folly at one’s peril. Apparently Maren Splids had given him some nasty words a full 13 years before the trouble started and the neighbor nursed the grudge along as if he was carrying a flame for her.
In 1637 this accuser, Didrik by name, denounced our misfortunate principal for bewitching him unto an infernal illness; he even delivered to gobsmacked investigators some strange object that he had vomited up under her spell.
Now, Maren and husband were big enough wheels to defeat this case in Ribe — but the diligent Didrick proceeded to carry the matter all the way to King Christian IV, a supernatural paranoiac in the mold of his witchsniffing contemporary and brother-in-law James VI of Scotland/James I of England....
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It’s a shame we can’t burn them in America.
In walking to the polling place to vote in Louisville yesterday, I saw yard signs in two yards reading “WITCHES FOR ABORTION ACCESS”.
With 86% of the vote in, the abortion constitutional amendment in generally conservative Kentucky is being won by the Pro-Abortion forces 52.6 - 47.4. The witches and many others want to be able to legally kill babies.
The people who thought overturning Roe would mean the end of abortion now see abortion being a political issue at all levels of government.
And we are seeing that there are lots of people just as passionate about preserving abortion access as there are passionate pro-life people.
suppose another American citizen accused “Cheshire the cat”
of ‘witchcraft’?
It is odd, funny and sad, that in America, a place where John Q. Public can exercise his ‘freedom of religion’ without retribution, there are those that are so willing to go full-on “1st Amendment for me, but not for thee”.
These days people get called racists and bigots before they get burned at the stake.
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