[Northkeep] Was Heraldic Question

[Tamberlin]

Is it just me or did the head stick jock's iq just go
up?!?!?!

Tamberlin the wannabe stick jane
whoseesmuchpaininherfuture

--- Bethor2000 at aol.com wrote:
> Earlier comments posted:
>
> >>well at least in christianized areas.
> >>what about the creative anachronist part?
> AND
> >>Often time those hiding groups of non Christians
> of Europe
>
> Unless your talking about Latvia and parts of
> Lithuania then there was no
> recorded "pagan" religion during the historical
> period we are
> "re-enacting"(to use that term in the loosest and
> broadest sense).  Sorry but
> this underground religion stuff is a modern, New Age
> creation, just like
> Wicca, it was created during the good old 20th
> Century, most likely the 60's.
>  Did people of Europe have superstitious practices,
> yea verily.  These are
> well recorded, and generally have some Christian
> part of a "spell" that
> involves saying the name of a saint or "numeric
> magic" from a significant
> occurrence in the Bible.  The use of astrology is
> also very well documented.
> For a look at late medieval practices I'd recommend
> K Thomas RELIGION AND
> THE DECLINE OF MAGIC.
> From what I've read and studied about "pagan"
> religions of Europe, most
> people had no problem converting to Christianity,
> because it was a definite
> step up and away from those very brutal practices.
> The idea of the peaceful,
> matriarchic nature religions is a whimsy.  The
> studies of the people that
> practiced these religions, through contemporary
> accounts and modern
> archeology show that these groups practiced human
> sacrifice and blood soaked
> ceremonies(Norse, specifically, have accounts of
> ceremonial rape and live
> burials).  Even the Malleus Maleficarum advises that
> witches are in an
> individual relationship with devils, and not part of
> some vast underground
> group.
>
> Alton
> "suffer not a witch to live"

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons...for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."

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