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goosey
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Holland
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Tue 1, January 2008 5:39pm
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Where does the name "cave of the witches" come from - there must be a story there somewhere?
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paul m
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Sheffield, South Yorks, UK
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Wed 2, January 2008 6:35am
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Isn't it the commonplace way to attribute something 'magical' to caves (unless, in England, it's a "Robin Hood's Cave"!) - and perhaps that is where the witches hung out. In Staffordshire there's a Lud's Cave which wasn't used by witches (to the best of my knowledge) but was used by a protestant christian sect being persecuted by the Roman Catholic church of that time .....
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paul m
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paul m
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Mon 24, March 2008 3:23pm
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Aha, it all seems to go back to 1610 when the area was visited by the Inquisition. Need I say more? There are lot of French sites on this: maybe this translation will come through?
http://translate.google.com/translat...3Doff%26sa%3DG
.... well, sort of. Fancy being accused of 'scavenging' .....  [checking the French, that is 'necrophage' in the original!]
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