ban on witches flying higher than 150m

[suninmyeyes]

Appropriate Halloween ish news ( well old news that is -- from May ) quoted from Metro :

 

Witches have been banned from flying above 150m (Picture: File)

Swaziland has launched a crackdown on high-flying witches after banning them from hovering above 150metres.

It has been a long time since witches were burnt at the stake in Europe but the accusation remains a serious one in the landlocked African country.

Anyone caught flying their broomstick above the height limit faces arrest and a hefty R500,000 fine, the country’s civil aviation authorities said this week.

‘A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit,’ corporate affairs director Sabelo Dlamini told The Star.

The new aviation law was highlighted after a private investigator was caught flying a helicopter equipped with a video camera to gather surveillance information.

Witchcraft is taken seriously in Swaziland where many people believe in the power of black magic.

Last year a leading Swazi MP called for a hike in tax paid by witch doctors to help ease the cash-strapped country’s financial woes.

Edited October 31, 2013 by suninmyeyes

[skydog]

mouse

edited my post

cos im a mouse

Edited October 31, 2013 by skydog

[suninmyeyes]

hey Skydog ! I like .

[skydog]

[zerostao]

why would a witch want to fly on her broomstick higher than 150m?

is there an advantage?

[suninmyeyes]

maybe depends on the witch , the task and the weather and so on ... mysterious ..

[suninmyeyes]

mouse

edited my post

cos im a mouse

anyway i hope you took your dog out for a walk , despite becoming a mouse

[BaguaKicksAss]

why would a witch want to fly on her broomstick higher than 150m?

is there an advantage?

 

For overseas travel, obviously

[BaguaKicksAss]

[MooNiNite]

so they have people talking about riding broomsticks even in africa? seems to be a global phenomenon..

 

but, i'v never seen any asian literature talking about riding broomsticks..

Edited November 1, 2013 by MooNiNite

[9th]

 

The first stories of "flying ointments" were recorded in the early 1400's. In those cases, mention was made only that the witches dreamt they were flying. Watched all night long, the witches were not seen to actually leave, but would awake with lurid stories of far away gatherings.

 

While the forged "grimoires" produced by the clergy prosecutors wove lurid tales of the boiled fat of a child as the central ingredient of the flying potion, the reality is that the concoction was based on easily available herbs such as aconite, nightshade, belladonna, alcohol, and of course, ergot.

 

The clergy, eager to so horrify the masses (to remove all resistance to the abuses of the Inquisition), cast all witches as a threat to the children. This myth of using a child's fat for a flying potion has no basis in historical fact, but persists to this very day, and was used as a story element in the film, "Warlock".

 

Of all the folk drugs available to the witches, ergot was the most powerful, and the most dangerous. In use as a hallucinogen it was absorbed through the skin, most quickly through the thin tissues of the female genitals. "Flying ointment" was administered by rubbing it on a smooth wooden pole such as a broomstick, and then "riding" the pole.

[Nungali]

so they have people talking about riding broomsticks even in africa? seems to be a global phenomenon..

 

but, i'v never seen any asian literature talking about riding broomsticks..

Because there witches ride chopsticks .... so obvious!

[Nungali]

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"While the forged "grimoires" produced by the clergy prosecutors wove lurid tales of the boiled fat of a child as the central ingredient of the flying potion, the reality is that the concoction was based on easily available herbs such as aconite, nightshade, belladonna, alcohol, and of course, ergot.

 

The clergy, eager to so horrify the masses (to remove all resistance to the abuses of the Inquisition), cast all witches as a threat to the children. This myth of using a child's fat for a flying potion has no basis in historical fact, but persists to this very day, and was used as a story element in the film, "Warlock"."

 

Sorry ... although that may be technically correct ... I wish it was right ... terrible things still happen to children in Africa in relation to witches and children ... and of course terrible things happen to 'witches' that are accused of terrible things. - Remember the recent {enough} case of the young African boy's body parts found in the UK and the analysis of his stomach contents just prior to his death.

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