[ANSTHRLD] Witch Names

Gerita hpockets at verizon.net
Thu Jun 5 13:58:16 PDT 2003


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 records and contemporary chroniclers, as well as some unpublished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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