Witches upset by broomstick style

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22169

Actually he is wrong, I have seen even older primitive art which 
showed a creature in a pointy hat riding a broom exactly the way we 
all would. Besides, it makes aerodynamic sense.

And uhmmm.... weren't these sixteenth century woodcuts made by the 
people who slandered and burned witches?

Some people just have to get their names in the paper!

Suzanne

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Belsawyer \(E-mail\)" <belinda at s...> 
wrote:
> I thought people might find this interesting.
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010709/od/potter_dc_1.html
> Monday July 9 7:57 AM ET
> 
> Witches Upset by Broomstick Style
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood studio Warner Bros has had a spell 
cast on it
> for showing apprentice wizard Harry Potter (news - web sites) 
riding his
> broomstick with the brush part at the back.
> A high priest of British White Witches said broomsticks should be 
ridden the
> other way round, and has wished for the film to do badly at the box 
office
> until the studio admits it got it wrong.
> ``Warner Bros claims the film is an accurate portrayal of things 
that happen
> in witchcraft, yet woodcuts from the 16th and 17th centuries show
> broomsticks being ridden with the brush part in the front,'' said 
Kevin
> Carlyon, who has his own coven in Sussex, southern England.
> ``It's a common mistake -- even the sixties TV series 'Bewitched' 
showed
> broomsticks being ridden backwards, but this is not correct,'' he 
said.
> The Harry Potter movie hasn't been released yet, but the trailer 
shows Harry
> being taught to ride a broomstick.
> Carlyon knows first hand the proper way to ride a broomstick -- he 
said he
> had three, though all were grounded at the moment.
> ``The CAA (Britain's Civil Aviation Authority) won't give me 
permission to
> fly,'' he said.