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Police Consult Warlock Over Braided Manes

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-two-soulstones-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept.

What do you do if the horses in your county start turning up with braided manes? If you're the police force in West Dorset, England you consult a warlock to make sure it isn't a sign of something malign. From the article: "PC Tim Poole, who has investigated the incidents, said: 'We can't completely rule out the possibility of theft. We did have intelligence from Avon and Somerset police that it is a gypsy trick, which it may or may not have been. But we have some very good information from a warlock that this is part of a white magic ritual and is to do with "knot magick." It would appear that for people of this belief, knot magick is used when they want to cast a spell.'"

8 comments

  1. I nominate this post for a new slashdot category by St.Creed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And I think we should name it "Stupid".

    Even for Idle, this must be a new low.

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  2. Re:I nominate this post for a new slashdot categor by ex_ottoyuhr · · Score: 1

    I know. "We have some very good information from a warlock"?

    If Sherlock Holmes and Jack Chick had graves, they'd both be turning over in them.

  3. Horde or Alliance? by tacarat · · Score: 1

    You all know you're dying to find out.

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  4. UK Humour by conureman · · Score: 1

    I find this amusing, in an idle sort of way. Easier than making crop circles perhaps?

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    1. Re:UK Humour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... and very attractive! (I'm not an anonymous coward, just to lazy to create a sign in!) --Rose

    2. Re:UK Humour by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      Easier than making crop circles perhaps?

      Well, maybe, maybe knot (sorry!) ; but it shouldn't take a rocket surgeon or brain scientist to work out which is more likely to kick you in the nuts - a field of wheat or a horse that doesn't know you.

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  5. Re:I nominate this post for a new slashdot categor by conureman · · Score: 1

    A.C. Doyle was into this kind of stuff, and Chick would've had Satanic Gypsies menacing someone's eternal well-being in another of his droll pamphlets, I don't get the reference.

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