Police Consult Warlock Over Braided Manes 8
What do you do if the horses in your county start turning up with braided manes? If you're the police force in West Dorset, England you consult a warlock to make sure it isn't a sign of something malign. From the article: "PC Tim Poole, who has investigated the incidents, said: 'We can't completely rule out the possibility of theft. We did have intelligence from Avon and Somerset police that it is a gypsy trick, which it may or may not have been. But we have some very good information from a warlock that this is part of a white magic ritual and is to do with "knot magick." It would appear that for people of this belief, knot magick is used when they want to cast a spell.'"
I nominate this post for a new slashdot category (Score:2, Insightful)
And I think we should name it "Stupid".
Even for Idle, this must be a new low.
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I know. "We have some very good information from a warlock"?
If Sherlock Holmes and Jack Chick had graves, they'd both be turning over in them.
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A.C. Doyle was into this kind of stuff, and Chick would've had Satanic Gypsies menacing someone's eternal well-being in another of his droll pamphlets, I don't get the reference.
Horde or Alliance? (Score:1)
UK Humour (Score:2)
I find this amusing, in an idle sort of way. Easier than making crop circles perhaps?
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Well, maybe, maybe knot (sorry!) ; but it shouldn't take a rocket surgeon or brain scientist to work out which is more likely to kick you in the nuts - a field of wheat or a horse that doesn't know you.