The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139458   Message #3201662
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
04-Aug-11 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Obit: John Barleycorn
Subject: RE: Obit: John Barleycorn
Inevitabily and humanity aren't always such a good thing really - and I've had more run-ins with Righteous Hippy-Pagan Fundamentalists in my time to be wary of the Alt. Scheme in general. The last one was a few years back - an American Witch who accused me (in no uncertain terms) of raping the Sheela-na-Gig on Kilpeck Church with my camcorder - of using it for pornographic gratification! She joins a long list of the dangerously deranged. Like the carvings at Kilpeck, or Stonehenge, or the Large Hardron Collider, or Spaghetti Juction, The Pyramids, or Blyth Power Station, Crop Circles were always marked by their human ingenuity. Like any religious impulse, the resultant mystery and folklore is, I fear, rather less than ingenious...