[ANSTHRLD] Witch Names

Tom Parr seamus at elfsea.net
Thu Jun 5 14:30:30 PDT 2003


sounds good lets hook up ad KWDS this weekend if you have time....

!Seamus!

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Gerita" <hpockets at verizon.net>
Reply-To: heralds at ansteorra.org
Date:  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:58:16 -0500

>Deal!!  I also have a Warlord shirt for you . . . .
>
>Gerita
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Parr" <seamus at elfsea.net>
>To: <heralds at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Witch Names
>
>
>> Gertia,
>>
>> If you wish to do a joint thingy on it I'd be willing.......
>>
>> Seamus
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "Gerita" <hpockets at verizon.net>
>> Reply-To: heralds at ansteorra.org
>> Date:  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:27:29 -0500
>>
>> >hmmmm.  I'd love to work on it, but it'll be at least 2 weeks before i
>can
>> >start.
>> >
>> >Gerita
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.com>
>> >To: <heralds at ansteorra.org>
>> >Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:20 PM
>> >Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Witch Names
>> >
>> >
>> >> While looking for information on Guthrum the Dane, I downloaded a PDF
>of
>> >> Margaret Alice Murray's "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" (Oxford:
>> >> Clarendon. 1921), because Google hit it in a general search for
>"guthrum".
>> >>
>> >> As it turns out, the PDF has a tiny passing mention of Guthrum that was
>> >> useless to me, but one of Murray's appendices caught my eye, being a
>list
>> >of
>> >> 681 names of witches from covens (162 of which occur between 1324 and
>1598
>> >> A.D.), with one section being arranged by date and location, and the
>other
>> >> alphabetical by personal name. These names were compiled from judicial
>> >> records and contemporary chroniclers, as well as some unpublished
>trials
>> >> among the Edinburgh Justiciary Records and also in the Guernsey Greffe.
>> >> Murray's study was focused on Great Britain, but also investigated some
>> >> French and Flemish sources, and New England records.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not exactly sure what Murray's theories about names and witches is
>(I
>> >> guess I'll eventually wade through enough of the text to figure that
>out,
>> >> just out of curiosity).  But having the alphabetical list presented by
>> >> Murray in tabular form, in a PDF, and being a tech writer with all the
>> >> necessary geeky tools for manipulating PDFs, and having time on my
>hands,
>> >I
>> >> sucked out the names into an Excel file.
>> >>
>> >> I have some vague notions that there is an article in this somewhere,
>with
>> >a
>> >> working title thus far of "Just Because You're an SCA Wiccan Doesn't
>Mean
>> >> You Have to Have a Pixie Moonglow Name".
>> >>
>> >> Since my focus is really on Viking names (d'oh!), I wondered if anyone
>> >> either (a) would like to pick up this list and do something useful with
>it
>> >> or (b) can suggest some useful presentation of this material (assuming
>it
>> >is
>> >> in any way useful).
>> >>
>> >> I've zipped the PDF and the Excel file separately and stuck 'em on my
>> >> website so folks can get at them.  They're located at:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/FTP_Files/MurrayWitchCult(477KB).zip
>> >> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/FTP_Files/MurrayWitchNames(55KB).zip
>> >>
>> >> ::GUNNVOR::
>> >>
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