Comment on He's never wrong
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
I was reading this book, academic book about the witch trials but written very early 1900s, and weird shit.
It referenced actual court documents and such during witch trials and this one person was admitting to talking to some dude with red eyes in a hat. I swear it sounds like the fucking Hatman, but during medieval times… Dude has been fucking with humanity for centuries at least.
orenj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Do you have the name of the book? My cousin was talking about the red eyed man his immediate family sees from time to time and I mentioned how it sounded like the hat man. Having a reference to a red eyed hat man would be sick to pull out in the next conversation
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Actually yes! the Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.
It’s a very odd book arguing that they weren’t seeing the devil and the witch trials were people worshipping what she calls the “Dianic cult”, like some ancient fertility gods with horns and stuff. But it does reference a lot of actual witch trials in the book and it’s fascinating.
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It’s available on archive.org. I might read this next, thanks!
orenj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Sick, thanks. My local library has a copy as it turns out, I’ll be checking it out tonight
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Hell yeah, libraries ftw!
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sclera or iris?