Hmm, I’d settle for just the first two, but also, do cantankerous ghost librarians even exist on the west coast? I feel like those would be few and far between if they do.
Joking aside and wild tangent, but it's insane how much you guys(assuming you're in the US) pay for antique (European) furniture. I bought myself a wardrobe cupboard for 100 Euros. Probably from the 17th century. Don't sell, because they're bulky, not fashionable, dark wood, and take up a lot of space. Thing has lasted a few hundred years, will last a few hundred more. Easier to dissassemble than ikea crap too.
Similar cupboards cost thousands in the US. Company buys them up over here, advertising, transport, fumigation, customs, transport, import documents, etc. etc.
Something that's a status symbol in some rich guys house, can be found in many a barn over here.
Recently learned this. Back in the day, women brewers would make beer in big cauldrons at the market place, wear big pointy hats so the customers could spot them easily, and had cats to chase away the mice that ate the raw materials. When monasteries started brewing beer they suddenly discovered that the women who were their competition were also WITCHES!!!
A bit searching confirms this. Turns out brewing beer was considered women’s work originally, something done between taking care of the kids and making dinner.
Women were in general accused of being a witch because they did most of the child care, sick care and other jobs concerning people. If somebody died, and lots of people died of disease, bad hygiene and so on, they sometime blamed the nanny or nurse and called her a witch that cursed them. Men usually worked with inanimate things or animals where chances of being called a witch were much lower.
If I had to guess, I’d say that the name in Boston comes from the fish, given the area’s maritime heritage. But the name of the fish probably came from their resemblance to the brewing ale-wives.
If only I knew! 😀 I’m from Wisconsin, and know about alewives (the fish) because they’re invasive in the Great Lakes, where they die off seasonally and wash ashore in large, stinky masses.
Curious as to what your source for this is. A quick search turned up this article, which is prefaced by a lengthy editor’s note regarding its veracity. The article as it now exists links to this article as the source of the claim
men accused female brewers of being witches.
This “source” doesn’t even make that argument at all.
I doubt you’d be boiling the wort at a marketplace, even for small beer you’re looking at a week or more of ferment.
Selling it from a tun at the market, having a characteristic dress (and probably call), is very consistent with European retail traditions. “Fishwives” were famous for their shrill, sharp calls for example.
The modern equivalent I guess is the ice cream truck; they pretty much all have the same livery and play the same recorded organ tunes. Just imagine that approach for every product category.
That’s a really bad read of Milton, which is unfortunate because Satan, being barely in the actual Bible at all, is effectively a Milton character. In Paradise Lost, Lucifer wages a war against God for the unfairness of God making himself king of heaven and earth, but then upon his defeat he sets himself up as the absolute king of Hell. He loathes humanity because he sees himself as a superior being who should rule them by right, but also demands equal footing with the omnipotent being who created him. It’s summed up in the fact that one of his primary stated goals is to try to show the hypocrisy of God, because he actually demonstrates massively hypocritical behavior at almost every conceivable opportunity. Lucifer wasn’t the first to demand equality, he was the first to demand social classes.
Easy trick to open a jar if you don’t have a Great Old One around: stick the end of a metal spoon handle between the metal lid and glass and pry (lightly! Don’t break the glass!) like a lever around the lid to loosen it, and it should be easy to twist off afterwards.
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