WITCHES - Upset by broomstick style

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Witches Upset by Broomstick Style

July 09, 2001 07:57 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood studio Warner Bros has had a spell cast on it for showing apprentice wizard Harry Potter 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.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2001

Answers

[rolling eyes]

I think that's "High Publicist," not High Priest. He's the one who also made sure he got headlines recently for blessing the Loch Ness monster

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2001


Well, as long as they don't sit on the end of the handle...

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2001

They don't do that in public, Barefoot, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors? (rolling eyes)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

On a technical note, a rounded handle would be a useful delivery system for hallucinogenic flying ointment, so that it would be absorbed quickly by the mucous membranes.

Yes, we don't tell you what goes on behind closed doors. ;)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


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