Then take a brush and paint thick eyebrows in black paint. Finally, mix some grass green with a tiny amount of black. Then use the corner of a sponge to blend wrinkle lines onto the forehead, and around the eyes, chin and cheeks. It was believed that the devil would confirm his pact with a witch by giving her a mark of identification. Why does the witch melt with water?
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Are Elphaba and Glinda lovers? A commonly prescribed trial for an accused witch was the ordeal by water: the suspect was tied up and tossed into a river. If she floated, she was guilty, and would be burned at the stake hence, the water-and-fire making a neat little symbolism. Water is associated with baptism, and thus the water of the river rejects the witch as satanic. This type of trial was carried out as late as the s.
Cecil cited this article in his column about Oz symbolism. Water represents the most precious commodity to the drought-ridden farmers on the great plains. Thus, water brings an end to hostile or malign nature. Baum himself lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota, from to , and so was well aware of the Great Plains symbolism. Tying this all together, we can say that water represents life, while witches are the apotheosis of death and decay. Light chases away darkness, good triumphs over evil eventually, one hopes , and water melts witches.
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If a young bachelor only talks sensible to a sensible colleen he has a good chanst to stay a bachelor. But this has nothing to do with your historical obserwaytions. We were happy with one another as birds of the same nest, till the ruction came on betwixt the black and the white angels. I bade all the Little People keep to themselves thin, because we had plenty of friends in both parties, and wanted throuble with nayther of them.
And the way that it was, was this. Thaddeus was a warm-hearted little man, but monsthrous high-spirited as well as quick- tempered. I can shut me eyes now, and in me mind see him thripping along, his head bent, his pipe in his mouth, his hands behind his back.
He never wore a waistcoat, but kept always his green body-coat buttoned. A tall caubeen was set on the back of his head, with a sprig of green shamrock in the band. There was a thin rim of black whiskers undher his chin. Thady needed no second axing. To think of how downthrodden we are! But when it came to hurling hills and shying tunderbolts at aich other, the black angels were bate from the first.
A black angel shot through the air over our heads, and began falling down, down, and down, till he was out of sight. Then a score of his friends came tumbling over the battlements; imagetly hundreds of others came whirling, and purty soon it was raining black wings down into the gulf.
Based on these research findings, this indicates that Lurline, like Brian, is of the race of long-lived nonhuman spirit creatures called longaevi , as immortal as angels, but not of their party, with whom Christian men nonetheless cannot traffic save in peril of sanity or soul.
Photographers, particularly English schoolgirls, are known to be able to capture longaevi on film, due to the sensitivity of silver nitrate to lunar alchemical resonance effects, whereas the dull and mundane human eye is often deceived.
Researchers report that the dull human eye is remarkably easy to deceive, particularly if there is an even duller human brain behind it, and that even English schoolgirls from Cottingley have been known to do so. As one eminent fairy researcher, Robin Goodfellow, is quoted as saying, What fools these mortals be!
Despite this, recent advances in photographic technology make acquisitions of longaevi-wavelength photographs more common, frequently at RenFaires and SciFi cons, where no one can tell the difference between nonhumans and science fiction fans anyway.
It being the case that fairies are expelled angelic beings, exiled from heaven but not wicked enough to merit hell, it follows that the spell of Lurline keeping the Wicked Witch alive despite her lack of circulatory fluid was not only black magic, it was black magic of the darkest sort, falling somewhere on the standardized Vatican rating scale between the Vlad Tepes level of unnatural eldritch power, and the Lo Pan level. It must be noted, however, that Lo Pan is not a fairy, nor a member of that order.
I see a hand raised. We have time for a question from the audience. Answer: Who plays at being a man! A being of vast, dark, destructive power. He has spirit medium powers like the immortals. His flesh and his bones are atomized; he becomes … a dream. That answer is just an exaggeration, I promise.
The point here is that the of psychomagnotheric energy of the Wicked Witch of the West has been reliable measured by Dr Egon Spengler of Empire State University at above 11 vanhelsings as the unit of preternatural deviation is called but beneath Since ten units is the cutoff threshold for what can properly be called life, it follow that the Wicked Witch was an undead spirit, ergo the bucket of water used by Dorothy must have been holy water, which is the only substance that can dissolve undead in the fashion described by the Royal Historian.
Now, holy water is hard to come by, especially in Puritan colonies in the New World, so the logical deduction is that the bucket had been secretly blessed by none other than Santa Claus.
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