Taste the Forbidden History…
Have you ever wondered why the stereotypical witch looks a lot like a Neanderthal? And why everybody accused witches of procuring baby fat for their work and even eating it? This book explores the truly taboo aspects of witchcraft, and draws on a long history of heresies, accusations, and mob mentality. There are two forms of history when it comes to something like witchcraft - an identity sprung from an accusation- the logical one, and the mythic one. Whether traditions of witchcraft reach back into pre-Christian times is one question, but there is also another type of history, the one that lurks in images, forbidden practices, repulsions, biases, and bigotry. The one we don’t even know might exist inside ourselves as well. The history of witchcraft contains both of these things, it is its history, but it is also its mythos - the history of the stories told about us.
If you are among her number then witchcraft owned your skin before you ever knew you did. You slipped into it down the drain-pipe of a birth cord, and it had you sewn into the flesh-purse of your baby hide. Many tales have come down to us over the past few hundred years, stories of outsiders reflected in a mirror darkly. The People of the Outside is part of that history, it is among some of the deepest buried sediment to be found in caves and sifted for traces of the past. It is a tale made of dust. It pulls apart binaries and invites us to use our hybrid brains - every tool, from science to intuition - to untangle the elf-locks that endure as a clever-cord, an elongated witch’s ball, one that reaches all the way back to our own almost extinct ancestors.
Welcome to the witchcraft of the dispossessed, from the almost until recently forgotten forebears, to eating people, and an unflinching examination of what it means to be a person of the outside.
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