Date: 25 March 2005 02:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] larryhammer
The web site doesn't seem to have anything on this (the only picture is this, the picture in back and the display to its left that's cut off), and I haven't recited it as much, so I may get some details wrong. I can't even remember the name -- I just call them milk-worms.

This was cited as the only magic that could be done only by women. By using some blood from her nipple(s?), a hank of wool, and some other material, she could supposedly create a double-headed worm, which she nursed on a nipple on her thigh (that's the b&w photo above). When it grew large enough, it could be sent, say, over the hill to her neighbor's cow to suckle milk and bring it back to her. When it got large enough, it could wrap over the top of the cow and use both mouths. By which point it was so large, it would be drinking the cow dry. If one of your hieffers stopped milking inexplicably, this was one possible reason why.

There's another "one woman" I thought you were talking about -- the only one burned (20 men, 1 woman, over a century). Which was an interesting case: she was prosecuted along with a male relative (son? brother? memory hazy) for healing. Which, as a form of magic, was form of blastphemy for altering Nature i.e. God's ordering of things. But while healing magics were punished, rarely by burning. The difference in this case seems to have been there was an inheritance involved. "Seems" because the complete trial records, which were supposed to be submitted to Copenhagen, got lost. Or possibly, got "lost."

I did say I had many more of these. I can start rattling off these things at the drop of a hat.

---L.
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