WITCHY WOMEN ABOUND...
Lots of good and bad witches in literature, tv, film, mythology, history and maybe even here at Mock.
One of my favorite sets of witchy women are the
"Three Witches" or "Weyward Sisters" from Macbeth. They foresaw his rise and his fall and helped to set the dark tone of Shakespeare's play.
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Macbeth and The Three Witches 1855 by Theodore Chasseriau
WHICH WITCHY WOMEN CAST A SPELL ON YOU?
Revelation 17:3&4
3. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication
Great songs; I forgot to include "music" in the opening post.
I really liked the show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Favorite character was Willow, who had morphed into a bi-sexual witch (mostly for revenge against evil ones) by the end of the series.
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Oh. I thought you were serious.
(08-19-2012, 02:08 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Oh. I thought you were serious.
All kinds of witches abound; serious and otherwise.
When historical witch hunts came up in two threads this morning, it made me think about just how deeply and diversly witches are represented in all forms of story-telling and entertainment, historically and in the present. It's pretty amazing.
Any very beautiful woman is an immensely powerful witch as far as I'm concerned.
(08-19-2012, 02:44 PM)Duchess Wrote: [ -> ] (08-19-2012, 02:40 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]a witch ball
I didn't know what that was so after reading about it just now I began to look at some of them. They are beautiful!
I had to look up "witch ball" too. Interesting and very pretty.
A witch ball is a hollow sphere of plain or stained glass hung in cottage windows in 18th century England to ward off evil spirits, witch's spells or ill fortune, though the witch ball actually originated among cultures where witches were considered a blessing and these witches would usually "enchant" the balls to enhance their potency against evils. Witch balls appeared in America in the 19th century and are often found in gardens under the name gazing ball. However, gazing balls contain no strands within their interior.
According to folk tales, witch balls would entice evil spirits with their bright colours; the strands inside the ball would then capture the spirit and prevent it from escaping.
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Or as I like to call them Christmas ornaments.
(08-19-2012, 04:18 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Or as I like to call them Christmas ornaments.
They look very much the same.
If you've got the craft within and a Christmas tree ball with internal strands, you've pretty much got yourself a witch ball to either ward off evil spirits or conjure up spells (as far as I can see).
(08-19-2012, 04:32 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Craft within?
I made that up.
I don't guess that you could do anything with a witch ball (other than decorate) unless you were endowed with witch craft. I'm rather ignorant on the subject though.
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The comic strip witch; no balls as far as I can tell
Isn't that just some bullshit so fat chicks can feel sexy and powerful? Witch craft sounds like a boat.
(08-19-2012, 04:59 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Isn't that just some bullshit so fat chicks can feel sexy and powerful? Witch craft sounds like a boat.
I don't know any witches personally.
But, some of the fictional pop-culture practicers of witch craft were skinny and sexy.
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(Uncle Arthur was a happenin' practicing Warlock; not fat)
In Gear's opinion a witch is only a real witch once she's identified as such by a man. The rest are fat asses who couldn't make sexuality happen.
I do like your 'pop-culture practicers' term though. Ain't nothing like the real thing baby.
(08-19-2012, 05:13 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]In Gear's opinion a witch is only a real witch once she's identified as such by a man. The rest are fat asses who couldn't make sexuality happen.
I do like you 'pop-culture practicers' term though. Ain't nothing like the real thing baby.
Yep, it's amazing how diversly "witches" are defined and represented in all forms of story telling. History, literature, comics, song, movies, mythology, theater, adult and children's television, real life believers... Fat, skinny, evil, pure, old, young, funny, serious, foul, sexy - all kinds of witchy characters... The witch's influence is all around us!
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