Witching>

#174097 49 Wed Oct 19 09:17:46 1994 Saint Bob @ Highway 61, Washington, DC, US/DC/WASH
Witches heal.
#174098 49 Wed Oct 19 23:54:18 1994 [learn not to die !] Coffee [of MCFR Co.2 TPVFD] @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
your point?
#175725 49 Thu Oct 20 07:12:55 1994 Saint Bob @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
No point. It's a bumpersticker I see on my way to work sometimes.
#175728 49 Thu Oct 20 18:57:05 1994 Ramphorynchus @ Saint Dismas' Infirmary, Takoma No Nuke Park, MD, US/MD/PEOPLES' REPUBLIC
Do they really? This is counter to everything I have ever heard.
#175729 49 Fri Oct 21 07:03:05 1994 Kagro X @ Saint Dismas' Infirmary, Takoma No Nuke Park, MD, US/MD/PEOPLES' REPUBLIC
Scabs heal, too, but that doesn't mean I encourage them.
#175726 49 Fri Oct 21 10:28:23 1994 Lady Non Sequitur @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
Witches heel. Witches sit. Witches stay. Stay, Witches, stay. Good witches.
#175727 49 Fri Oct 21 11:57:56 1994 chester cheetah @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
Bahahahahahahah! "She was a bad witch, she wouldn't heel, wouldn'tt sit, wouldn't stay."
#175730 49 Sat Oct 22 00:40:46 1994 [Blubard] Blubard [Tok] @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
Encourage scabs, or encourage healing?
#175724 49 Sat Oct 22 01:34:57 1994 [Under The Sea] LITTLE MERMAID @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
They don't heal''' They just come back! watch out!!! spookie! huh??? hehe
#176621 49 Sat Oct 22 20:50:15 1994 Cerphe @ Saint Dismas' Infirmary, Takoma No Nuke Park, MD, US/MD/PEOPLES' REPUBLIC
Lady S: Hahahahahahahaah....
#176622 49 Mon Oct 24 10:46:25 1994 Ruadh @ Outsider's, Takoma Park, MD, US/MD/MONTGOMERY
A lot of the women who were burned during the Rennaisance (saying the "late middle ages" is not accurate -- witch-burnings happened from about 1500-1650, I think) were herbal healers who provided competition to a) the church, which encouraged people to turn to the Saints for healing, and b) the university-educated doctors, who had some wierd ideas of their own ("the humours" of the body affecting health, bleeding people, etc.) It was, in fact, a crime to provide herbal remedies of any kind, healing or otherwise. People had no idea why herbs worked; they often thought they worked through the influence of magic or astrological concurrences. For example, the plant liverwort was thought to be good for the liver because it had the same shape as the liver, not because it had any real virtue for healing liver ailments. Mixed in with all these supersitious remedies, though, were some honest-to-goodness remedies that are valid even today, such as willow bark (salicylic acid = aspirin) for headaches and such. I think we see the same bias today by the medical establishment against any remedy they didn't think of themselves. There is some progress, though, in looking at herbal traditions for remedies, especially in the Amazon. It's ironic, though, that we pay more attention to exotic shamans than to our own herbal tradition, which remains largely despised in medical circles.
#176620 49 Mon Oct 24 20:59:28 1994 [
3
bBEWARE:
0] SkyWise [Has rabies!] @ Dystopia ][, Bellingham, US/WA/Whatcom
Wot's this room for?
Witching> _