is it time for an ILX Witchhunt?

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They lurk amongst us, seeming like us in many ways, but to those who know the signs, they are clearly WITCHES.

ILX must be cleansed. Who will join me in rooting out this plague?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! Ducking stool! Oh no!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I did hear that Goody Baran weighs fifteen stone though he stands no higher than a man's shoulder and that it was the devil gave him his bones.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

What say you to that, Goody Baran? Are ye ready to take the test?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Cearly Graham is a witch. Not only for his girly hair but for his server-side magick.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Word is it that spinster Starry has a keen interest in the dark arts and is regularly mixing potions. Regularly she is to be seen dancing and singing to speak with the spirits. Look at the CLOTHES.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I fear that we will require many a bonfire before this board has been burned clean of witchery.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Goody Trewartha has a familiar in the shape of a kitten and when the moon is full he puts the hex on it and it grows into a huge tank creature with laser eyes.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

there was some strange speaking backwards on another thread i dare not talk about for fear of demon attack. run for your lives!

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

curse you e(bat)wing. i see your unnatural ability to consume quarts of milk fortified with bananas remains unabated. tell me how can this be?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

THE DV IS A WARLOCK!

SOMEONE CHOP OFF HIS WHATSIT!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

curse you e(bat)wing. i see your unnatural ability to consume quarts of milk fortified with bananas remains unabated. tell me how can this be?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

THE DV IS A WARLOCK!

SOMEONE CHOP OFF HIS WHATSIT!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

THE DV IS A WARLOCK!

SOMEONE CHOP OFF HIS WHATSIT!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Goody Tom is good at this, aye, too good mayhap

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

THE DV IS A WARLOCK!

SOMEONE CHOP OFF HIS WHATSIT!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

And Madchen speaks a suspicious number of languages (speaking in tongues).

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

3y3 \/\/!LL PuT /-\ H4x0R 0|\| YUO /-\LL!!!111!1!1!1!!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

He be a Vicar, but some do say he be dirty. A dark vicar?

― GFG (Tim), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

e-wings (bat-wings more like) unnatural ability to quaff endless quarts of milk fortified with banana-based potions has always struck me as, well, eerie. or queer.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

The horned one has put the repeating hex on this thread, I'll warrant. Strange that it should have taken place so soon after Goody Trewartha posted.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I have it on good authority Lara has an extra teat from which her familiar suckles by moonlight.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

And word is she was seen riding cows in the paddocks at dusk, whereafter all our milk turned to cheese!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus, Lara has claimed to spend a good deal of her time *flying*

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

who has hexed me so?! help. someone with a recent grudge against me NO DOUBT.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Ye shall know the warlock by the smell of minestrone.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Goody Trewartha as you well know the gnawing ache in my guts compels me to drink the medicinal milk - an ache I may state that no apothecary can explain, though perhaps YOU (or your Master should I say) know from where it did spring?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a witch, yeah, take me. I've got three nipples and I dance naked with dirty dronerock devils on every black sabbath. I'M A WITCH!!! WIIIIIIITCH!!! COME HERE!!! TAKE ME!!! HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!

― kate (suzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.buffyfan.dk/episodes/season4/65something_blue/pics/willow_sad.jpg

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I did hear that one in this community did try to complete a dark ritual involving the consumption of three bottles of a brew named SATAN RED, nay and also one called DEVIL or something akin. We can be thankful this perfidious spell did not succeed!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I play Loveless backwards every night! Ha ha!!! While consorting with FOUL DEMONS!!!

!!!!emiT eroM enO ybaB eM tiH

You know you can't trust us intelligent single females who have no use for men, we will seduce all yer MENFOLK with our witchy treachery!!! Ha ha ha haaaa!!!

― kate (suzy), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't believe Kate's a witch.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Look, I have just turned you into a frog! Ha!

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

pioson hex u r all fey

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Kate's not a witch. I would have seen her downthe coven - DOH!

Its all science my unnaturally heavy bones, the queer smell of minestrone - all science you superstitious fools.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

If I'm a frog it's my father's fault.

Kate, there's a difference between being a witch and being a goth.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

he's practicing sufficiently advanced science now! burn him

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Ohmigoddess, you guys, it's called WICCA, and it's an honorable ancient religion, ok? I'm not making a power circle with ANY of you haters any more. Blessed be!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

CONDEMNED FROM HIS OWN LIPS!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely if I was a witch with *special* powers, I wouldn't have posted my 'DV is a warlock' post FOUR TIMES?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

She was raising a charm, the foul wench.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, do you hate Yuletide?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, let's see who were singled out as witches in typical witch trials. Unusual or eccentric women, who lived alone or without the protection of menfolk (unless of course the menfolk in question had property which the community coveted), who were already seen as outsiders or objects of suspicion, learned or uppity women, attention-seeking or bored and powerless women...

Oh god, this is depressing me. If this were the 16th Century, I'd be dead already.

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Burn her! Burn her! She turned me into a NEWT!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

and a newt that can type at that. madskillXoR or what

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

My goth powers shall protect me. Oh wait I have none.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

(Actually in a lot of cases Kate it wasn't the outsider women who were singled out (though it was generally women). There are theories about the Salem witch-trials, for instance, which posit them as a convulsion caused by sudden economic changes in a frontier society - the very opportunities that had lured people to the New World also meant that individuals could easily or suddenly get hold of large amounts of wealth or property, and this laid them open to witch-charges. The pattern of accusations in Salem IIRC tended to be women accusing women, and also tended to be powerless or marginalised women accusing newly powerful ones.)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

My goth powers shall protect me. Oh wait I have none.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

No goth powers, but behold the shroud that sits upon his shoulders. Tis the likeness of the beast himself. Burn it.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a dirty vicar, so that the demons who live in soap cannot harm my immortal soul.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(I wasn't actually talking about Salem so much as the European witch fever of a few centuries earlier - because it was the Church and male Doctors (as opposed to wise women and midwives) trying to establish their power, over the older profession. That was the case of outsider women being accused...)

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

⦈ 軨暁衴訅刼 ઱ ਨ ⥿ 沵

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

WINGDING WITCHERY!

― rener (rener), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I am so glad I don't have many fonts installed on this machine...

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I be a witch? Please??!?!??! I'll be bad, I promise.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

You may be my apprentice... but first you must carry my ROOTS home from SABBAT!!!

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You GUYS, you are TOTALLY reinforcing patriarchial STEREOTYPES! GUH!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

POOF! And so you shall be!

Colin, you are now a PATRIARCHAL STEREOTYPE!!! I mean, a toad. Tee hee, I love the power!

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

word has it that on nights when the moon is full, a beast of devilish aspect is seen to prowl around ILX threads claiming to be a werewolf!

― rener (rener), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The European witch-craze wasn't too far apart from Salem timewise; about a hundred years or so. The European craze was mostly in the late 16th and early 17th centuries; wasn't Salem in the late 17th c?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

*stirring cauldron, reciting incantations, making grandiose hand gestures, invoking Spirits of the Dark, scratching ass*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha I left it out for that v purpose. Isabel says thankyou for the frog though she claims it is a toad. It has proved popular!

-- Tom

An admission of association with familiars! Take Ewing and Sarah and the never seen Isabel!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_WHOU.JPG
I doe implore thee, goe to my house. If I must tell you, I will tell.

― Sarah Good (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe you guys made so much fun of conner "I AM A WEREWOLF" smedley.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Who wants to be Tituba??

"what familiarity have you w'th the devill, or w't is itt if you Converse q'th all? Tell the truth whoe itt is that hurts them"

― Sarah Good (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Were there werewolves during the witch trials? Or were they taking some time off?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha "tit tuba")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh!! There you are, Dan.

― Sarah Good (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew if I typed in TITUBA, you would appear.

― Sarah Good (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

HELLO!

I AM A WITCH!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

HHOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWLLLLLL!!!!!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ISTO.JPG
Beware! I am a bizarre looking guy, but also a judge and I will hang all of thee!

― Sarah "William Stoughton" Johnson (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Which

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

*sets up an altar with an image of Persephone, Goddess of the Underworld, begins to offer her an invocation that I may have her dark powers*

*considers offering the Queen of Hell a human sacrifice*

*tries to figure out which ILXor is the most expendable*

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Alice Cooper was a witch.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

*BWAAA-BWAAAAMP-BAH-BAH-BWAAAAMP-BWAAAAAAMP-BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH*

― Tit Tuba (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

C17th witchhunt SuX0rs - u r all supernaturally gay.

McCarthyite witchhunt, however - woohoo! Denounce all those pinko Commie types that we all know lurk round here. For a start I think that that Lara bird is suspicious. I mean, the girl has _red_ shoes.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Liz is a commie! And I'll name more names!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

No! I'll get you for this infamy, Comrade Viper!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Phmigosh, you guys, it's called SOCIALISM, and it's a TOTALLY VIABLE political position. Durr-hay!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone fancy a boiled sweet?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(I mean *ribbit*, actually.)
(Although in German, frogs and toads say *quack*!)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate's a witch, she turned me into a newt!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

GUILTY! GUILTY!

Let her taste the infernal fires that will burn her for all eternity.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

well, I got better.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Who has a suspicious spot on his/her nose?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Rebecca!

(or did last time I saw her, which was six months ago, sigh)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

(Note to self: obsessively Noxemize and Neutrogene my face before the next time I go to London to avoid witchy accusations)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i am going to sing bat out of hell
-- jel -- (freeduni...), March 6th, 2003 4:24 PM.

BURN HIM!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

COOK HIM AND SERVE HIM TO HIS GIRLFRIEND/UNCLE/TWO MILKSOP STRANGERS/A TRANSVESTITE!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha! But what unholy facial extrusions are being hidden by Ewing's BEARD, eh? Satanic follicles to the bonfire posthaste!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Says the Welsh witch herself! let her join Mr Ewing... IN HELL.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

HELLO!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(see, it's all about timing)

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw goody [name deleted by myself] dancing to kenny g records in the woods.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

BURN HIM!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, speaking of Smedley, that's a good candidate for J. Lu's sacrifice, methinks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Demons in the spring

I can hear them sing
"I'll be coming"
Whenever no one follows, nope
Dedicated all to you (me)
Dedicated all to (me)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I shall do more than turn thee into a NEWT!!!

EYE OF BAT AND TONGUE OF WAREWOLF, I TURN THEE INTO A NEWBIE!!!

Ha-HAH!

― KATE, Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Uhhh... what does Fremme Neppa Venete mean?

Aarrrrgh, I am bewitched!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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*quack!*

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