In which Springer and Kramer Fail to Get the Joke

[bunnyjadwiga]

Something I quoted in my "Beyond the Herb-Wife" presentation, about the certain witchcraft-related beliefs, from the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM

And what, then, is to be thought of those witches who in this way sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many and is a matter of common report? It is to be said that it is all done by devil's work and illusion, for the senses of those who see them are deluded in the way we have said. For a certain man tells that, when he had lost his member, he approached a known witch to ask her to restore it to him. She told the afflicted man to climb a certain tree, and that he might take which he liked out of the nest in which there were several members. And when he tried to take a big one, the witch said: You must not take that one; adding, because it belongs to a parish priest.

http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/part_II/mm02a07a.html

Comments

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

*Falls over dead from laughing*

Cool!

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I was beginning to fear nobody else had got it either!