Witchcraft as explanation / explaining witchcraft by Ellis Saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu en-us 2023-08-20 18:11:17 UTC 2023-09-04 12:06:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9d9-2640.png The fairy wife of Myddfai e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666759883 More info: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_physicians_of_Myddvai/bH4NAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 ]]> 2023-08-20 18:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666759883 The Hexham Heads e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666761002 More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexham_Heads ]]> 2023-08-20 18:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666761002 The cadaver synod e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666761313 More info: https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/]]> 2023-08-20 18:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2666761313 Ergot! Again e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821470 Half-baked bread...]]> 2023-08-26 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821470 Black market for papal body parts? e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821532 2023-08-26 17:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821532 Hexham heads remind me of the Edinburgh coffins. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821578 2023-08-26 17:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821578 Rasputin's origin story? https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821600 2023-08-26 17:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821600 Pope's image appears in frescoes https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821678 2023-08-26 17:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821678 The repeated burying and drowning suggests as much! e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821691 2023-08-26 17:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821691 Fossilised fairies https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821734 2023-08-26 17:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821734 hollyhirst84 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821737 I was thinking about Rasputin too!]]> 2023-08-26 17:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821737 Alien recording devices. Cloaking field failed when the doglike aliens tried to retrieve them the first time, the man who disappeared with them took them back to the mothership so the footage could be analysed. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821828 2023-08-26 17:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821828 Heads https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821872 Heads are made using clay from a certain place that has a really high mineral content - they move due to magnetic force. ]]> 2023-08-26 17:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821872 Education for unruly husbands https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821883 2023-08-26 17:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821883 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821916 The Hexham Heads are the Wolfman's sentient teething toys. They've managed to escape thus far, but the Wolfman has found his way through the portal, and is determined to get them back.... ]]> 2023-08-26 17:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821916 This is like the Praetorian Guard never disbanded. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821927 2023-08-26 17:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673821927 The Hexham Heads ideas (I have never heard of this one) This reminds me of haunted objects which can either haunt the owner or they can help the owner. Maybe they can possibly do both. Firstly granting wishes until the point where wishes are never enough and the person disappears. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822048 2023-08-26 17:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822048 Club of supernatural ex-wives https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822113 2023-08-26 17:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822113 Cordyceps Pope fungus? https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822120 2023-08-26 17:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822120 Lilith organising the meet-ups? e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822207 2023-08-26 17:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822207 hollyhirst84 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822305 I like to think it was a woman testing out future husbands. Were they gullible enough to belief she was a fairy? Could they do basic tasks like bake bread? Was it edible? Conditions for his behaviour and a 'I think not, I'm out of here' clause built in]]> 2023-08-26 17:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822305 She'll take the sheep, dude. So she'll take the source of income. Pay attention. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822352 2023-08-26 17:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822352 Fairy Wife of Myddfai https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822444
Respect the cunning woman. She can give but she can also take away just as easily. A bit like the witch who can cure and can kill.

]]> 2023-08-26 17:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822444 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822455 Supernatural - backstory: the 'finder of the heads' was actually a murderer who cursed his siblings. Each time the heads are within earshot of the murderer, they become smaller and they also 'face' toward the murder.]]> 2023-08-26 17:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822455 the devil's salt and pepper shakers https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822463 2023-08-26 17:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822463 Hexham Heads = Aliens. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822482 In little head shaped ships. Crashed into the garden, and once woken up, started taking a keen interest in events going on around them. The wolfman was nothing to do with them, it was the secret boyfriend of the Celtic expert's daughter, who was particularly hairy (it was the 70s) and accidentally tried to return to the wrong bedroom and escaped. After a while, the aliens manage to find a way to power their ships using a combination of solar power and lucozade, and take off one night to return home, full of stories about these strange humans.]]> 2023-08-26 17:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822482 Cardinal from an ancient order sneakily tries to bring about fulfilment of prophecy by putting the corpse on trial and manipulating events so the miracles will occur. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822557 2023-08-26 17:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822557 Wasn't there a Sicilian (?) king who had a dinner table attended by deceased enemies? https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822584 2023-08-26 17:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822584 hollyhirst84 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822591 Heads are traps for troublesome spirits but the spirits are mostly just quite curious ]]> 2023-08-26 17:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822591 I want to know what happened to his blessing fingers after they were cut off. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822628 2023-08-26 17:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822628 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822784 Blackmarket body parts is great - I worked a case involving that. Is a great explanation for what might seem supernatural. 

]]> 2023-08-26 17:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673822784 I know, not Scotland, but these are burnt bannocks, and the rest is hallucination from eating them. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823029 2023-08-26 17:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823029 Never mind the heads, worry about what the bodies are up to. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823178 2023-08-26 17:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823178 hollyhirst84 https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823367 Eaten for magical pope powers?]]> 2023-08-26 17:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823367 Prophecies! e_saxey https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823389 Yes - why give up when the prophesied person dies? ]]> 2023-08-26 17:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673823389 Are there fairy divorce lawyers? https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824129 2023-08-26 17:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824129 he was resurrected in the river by a water creature in exchange for his eyes https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824198 2023-08-26 17:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824198 This never actually happened and is actually the plot of a famous Hong Kong movie. https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824276 2023-08-26 17:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824276 What if he gives 'crooked' blessings/miracles - like monkey paw stories https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824356 2023-08-26 17:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673824356 Heads as Murder Detectors https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673830405 This theory reminds me of the Head of Donn Bó story from Irish myth.]]> 2023-08-26 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/e_saxey/qhy0plfzvz85h0wu/wish/2673830405