Sunday, December 23, 2007

JOURNAL: Thessaly






I can see them, walking among these mountains, the twin peaks watching and guarding the caves below them. Witches, one and all, mythical and real, then and -if we find the door- now.

Ancient Thessalian witches were believed to control the moon, according to an old tract: "If I command the moon, it will come down; and if I wish to withhold the day, the night will linger over my head; and again, if I wish to embark on the sea, I need no ship, and if I wish to fly through the air, I am free of my weight."
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