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Trick or Treeeeeeeat!
Oct. 31st, 2011 05:52 pmQuite coincidentally, I read this about an hour before the first candy ghouls showed up at the door:
No, I have no idea where he got this bit of info. Still, it's something to keep in mind. After all, the broomstick you originally chose for your costume might be a tad large.
Might be. . . .
Addendum, All Hallows Day: Sharing this, I realized the term "broomstick" might be a visual pun. I was wondering why a drug dildo would have bristles, but then realized it would only look bristled . . . when applied. (You kids under 20 or so, look up pre-razor/Brazilian/hardwoods era female nude shots to understand the joke so obvious to a me, a child of the '70s.)
Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to "cast spells" — in our vocabulary, "psychoactive" plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladonna, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skins of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based "flying oinment" that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the "broomstick" by which these women were said to travel.
(Michael Pollen, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Random House, 2001, p. 119. How could I not emphasize?!?)
No, I have no idea where he got this bit of info. Still, it's something to keep in mind. After all, the broomstick you originally chose for your costume might be a tad large.
Might be. . . .
Addendum, All Hallows Day: Sharing this, I realized the term "broomstick" might be a visual pun. I was wondering why a drug dildo would have bristles, but then realized it would only look bristled . . . when applied. (You kids under 20 or so, look up pre-razor/Brazilian/hardwoods era female nude shots to understand the joke so obvious to a me, a child of the '70s.)