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To: Dalin who wrote (90917)	1/24/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: Mick Mørmøny	Respond to of 176387

< OT > Dalin, this is not a joke. The term "witch hunt," much heard during the past year, is usually resurrected during cultural wars. With all the current hyperbole -- "witches' brew" was the term used last week by White House counsel Charles Ruff to describe the charges against President Clinton in his impeachment trial -- it might be useful to reflect on the days when a witch hunt was really a hunt for witches. Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition in 1233 to root out witches, heretics and other agents of Satan, who were believed to be spreading rapidly throughout Europe to destroy the clerical and political orders. Thousands were denounced and executed. Two centuries later, Pope Innocent VIII commissioned a comprehensive field guide for witch hunters that would remain in use for two more centuries: "The Malleus Maleficarum," written in 1484 by prominent inquisitors in heresy-riddled Germany. Here is an excerpt from The New York Times. The Lorena Bobbitt Precedent What, then, is to be thought of witches who . . . sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as 20 or 30 members, and put them in a bird's nest, or shut them up in a box . . . as has been seen by many and is a matter of common report? . . . For a certain man tells that, when he had lost his member, he approached a known witch to ask her to restore it to him. She told the afflicted man to climb a certain tree, and that he might take which he liked out of a nest in which there were several members. And when he tried to take a big one, the witch said: You must not take that one, adding, because it belonged to a parish priest. Peace be with you! Sometimes I hear my neighbor say, "peace on you," fast. Beni Mick Mormony