LL-L "Society" 2005.09.20 (05) [A/E]

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From: Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L Society was 'Etymology'

Hi all,

I have always found this subject immensely interesting that women who chose
to live contrary to society?s expectations, were shunned and even burnt at 
the stake
as witches.

I have on my kitchen shelf an Offenburger Hexe with her little bag of 
rosehips.
As I understand from our 87 year-old German grandmama, these women were
merely bright sparks who understood the workings of different medicinal 
herbs,
rootstock and seeds and, because of their knowledge (which is power) they 
were
regarded by the church as suspect for trying to be more powerful than God.

?Haglik? is die woord wat opkom.

Groete,
Elsie Zinsser

>Note also that _haag-_ with reference to women often referred to
>disenfranchised and/or shunned woman that lived alone or in small
>communities out in the woods, usually women that for one reason or another
>did not have the "protection" of a man or that secretly practised their
>"Pagan" shamanism.  Apparently, that's where certain words for "witch" are
>derived, e.g., Dutch _hag(h)etisse_, Old English _h?gtes(se)_ (> Modern
>English "hag"), German _Hexe_.

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