Scottish witchcraft book published online

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37789413

by Hooke • 10 years ago

67 35 10 years ago

Zikes2• 10 years ago

"We're delighted to share this insight into the past with a wider audience."

No links to the book in the article. There's a branded link to Ancestry.com in the article, though. But no indication of where to go once you get there. Incredibly irritating when the headline of the article is about something being published online.

Eventually found it by looking on the Wellcome Library web site: http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19111319#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&...

shmerl• 10 years ago

Is the book loading for you? It just shows a spinning circle.

UDPATE: I found a working link in the source: https://dlcs.io/pdf/wellcome/pdf-item/b19111319/0

Seems to be just a bunch of names. So "Scottish witchcraft book" is a pretty misleading title.

Zikes2• 10 years ago

The linked page is loading for me, but if it's seeing a lot of traffic there may be a lot of factors involved.

jklinger4102• 10 years ago

I stupidly thought that this would be readable haha.

rokosbasilisk2• 10 years ago

is this because of that ridiculous spirit cooking rumor?

Kenji• 10 years ago

What do you mean, "ridiculous" "rumour"?

Do you not accept the authenticity of DKIM-authenticated Wikileaks e-mails? It is written there, black on white, byte for byte.

EDIT: Just to clarify. The e-mail in question specifically contains "spirit cooking" so it is in no way a rumour. What that means exactly - well, yes, that is open to your interpretation and imagination.

geofft• 10 years ago

The authenticity of the emails is one thing. The meaning of the authenticated words is quite another.

What is, apparently, authenticated is that John Podesta's brother invited him to a "Spirit Cooking dinner" (those are the relevant three words that are part of the authenticated email) hosted by a performance artist named Marina Abramovic. What is not authenticated at all is what "Spirit Cooking dinner" means. One possibility is that it is a Satanic orgy ritual. One possibility is that it is a perfectly normal dinner with normal human food, celebrating / related to a performance art project named Spirit Cooking (see, e.g., https://www.moma.org/collection/works/143945). The email doesn't rule either of those possibilities out.

dguaraglia7• 10 years ago

How would you describe something that is in no way based in reality? The only "reality" is an email that, as far as anyone can tell, is linked to a performance artist. Imagine if anyone in the campaign was invited to a transgressive art[1] exhibit! People would be talking about the Clintons eating fetuses! (Actually, never mind, there's people already doing that...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgressive_art

rokosbasilisk2• 10 years ago

wow. i didnt know it was authenticated, i thought it was just a fake smear.

thisisdallas4• 10 years ago

is this because of that ridiculous spirit cooking rumor?

1. Most likely absolutely not. 2. That's...not a rumor but you don't have to accept the reality.

dguaraglia7• 10 years ago

Looks like you might have been reading Scott Adams lately. What "reality" are you describing here? The fact that there's an email regarding "Spirit cooking" (whatever that might mean) or the made up fact that the Clintons take part in blood orgies? Because those are two different things.

drzaiusapelord• 10 years ago

For those expecting a grimoire, nope, this is just a historical document of people accused of witchcraft and such.

blurbleblurble• 10 years ago

Powerful quote:

"It gives us a fleeting view of a world beyond orthodox medicine and expensively trained physicians, in which people in small towns and villages looked for their own routes to understanding the world and came into conflict with the state for doing it"

It may be unpopular for me to say this, but I believe that the very same energy behind witchhunts is recapitulated today by overzealous "skeptics".

GlennS• 10 years ago

Well it's an interesting group to single out.

Speaking as a moderately zealous skeptic. Yeah, we can gang up on people, and sometimes talk down to them out of exasperation. And those are bad things.

But...

Unlike a lot of internet public shaming (and probably unlike these witchcraft cases), there's no sexual element or threats of violence.

Scientists don't blow up people for not believing in thermodynamics.

So, I'd say there are probably better candidates.

metaphorm2• 10 years ago

Scientists don't blow up people for not believing in thermodynamics.

wrong example. you should be thinking about the way a certain particular faction ostracizes people for expressing views containing any content that might be considered "religion" or "spirituality".

ChuckMcM• 10 years ago

Great, now ancestry.com com can tell you when you are literally the spawn of an unholy love child?

rapsacnz• 10 years ago

This is an ad for Ancestry.com. Why is this article here?

pjc50• 10 years ago

- Not very hackerish

- May be disguised ad for ancestry.com

- Comments here have gone very weird very fast

=> Flag and move on.

Scottish witchcraft book published online

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