Chapter VI. Miscellany
Plate 23. THE FAIRIES GOLDEN FEET CASTS
Accounts of women being spirited away are not uncommon in Scottish folklore, most women being used to tend to sickly fairy offspring. The presbytery records of Stirling and Dunblane contain many references to a woman called Janet Cocklay, who is believed to have been carried off by the fairies.
Some anthropologists maintain that the whole fairy-faith has grown out of a folk memory of a small statured race, the Neolithic and Bronze Age folk, who at one time inhabited the British Isles and many parts of the continent. (F. Marian McNeil - "The Silver Bough")
The Picts may have been the real Fairies in Scotland. Brownies are the Scots equivalent of the Roman lares, domestic spirits of the hearth who hide themselves in some obscure recess of the house to come out and work at night.
Plate 24. THE SUPER HOUSEWIVES CONVENTION KULT - S.H.o.C.K.
Was set up simultaneously in California and Boston in 1973 as a response to radical
feminism, the main tenet being that housework can be a liberating force in its own right. A secret organisation with approx. 20 million women in Britain and North America. Initiates use only bright pink feather dusters and have been involved in secret meetings with household cleaning manufacturers to produce items that non-members will find useless but are nevertheless on supermarket shelfs.
Plate 25. AIDS TO BOREDOM
"Uuh uuh uuh, I need another fix" ( The Slits - "New Town")
Plate 26. NIPPY SWEETIE
Shoplifters will be prosecuted
Plate 27. MOTHER'S TONGUE
The beetle clicks in the reeds.
Plate 28. NOT QUITE CRICKET
Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient; they guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them, then if they obey you, take no further action against them.
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