Received: by 10.224.78.209 with SMTP id m17mr10212218qak.3.1349574648746; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:50:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.175.5 with SMTP id bw5mr2173871vdc.16.1349574648717; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: e10ni211270746qan.0!nntp.google.com!l8no28954264qao.0!postnews.google.com!p22g2000vby.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.usage.english Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p22g2000vby.googlegroups.com; posting-host=196.215.129.32; posting-account=p-xPhAkAAADjHQWEO7sFME2XBdF1P_2H NNTP-Posting-Host: 196.215.129.32 References: <9jtq68h72g46p5bpuupov02gevc2ismkfs@4ax.com> <637d38e8-1fe2-4503-9bdd-9128f02c0352@k20g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/536.26.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.1 Safari/536.26.14,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <7176e8f4-45ad-4717-a8b9-da0ceab340e2@p22g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Sellotaph From: Peter Brooks Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:50:48 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Oct 6, 10:53=A0pm, Mike L wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 04:31:10 -0700 (PDT), Peter Brooks > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > >On Oct 6, 8:48=A0am, Steve Hayes wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:29:36 -0700 (PDT), Peter Brooks > > >> wrote: > >> >On Oct 5, 7:22=A0am, Steve Hayes wrote: > >> >> I recently indicated an example with photograph, in one of my blog = posts. > > >> >> Now someone has left a comment suggesting that it may be an example= of > >> >> (un)sympathetic magic -- not that the corss and flowers indicate th= at someone > >> >> died there, but rather that someone wishes they would, and is placi= ng the > >> >> cross and flowers there as a means to bring that about. > > >> >Isn't that a rather non-specific misanthropy? How would it target an > >> >individual? > > >> It does have the "target's" name on it. > > >Oh, I see, just as well magic can read then. > > It's the spirits. There was a magic spring in Wales whose owner would > charge a modest fee to any who wanted to drop in a curse on somebody. > He would then discreetly suggest to the victim that a counter-curse > might be advisable, and collect another modest fee. (Not unlike the > armaments industry, it occurs to me.) The reason I was able to read > about this particular one was that he ended up being prosecuted; there > must have been others. > Prosecuted for what? Whatever it was, I'd imagine that they'd be able to do other organised god-bothering under the same terms.