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23 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
> law surrounding haunted houses
> If the presence of ghosts (i.e soul of human) negates vacant possession
> status of genus loci/ house guarding spirits
> whether is the house-guarding spirit is a tenant/licensee?

> Whether the poltergeist can make a claim of adverse possession after haunting the house for a sufficient length of time? (adverseness a given in this case)
> Procedure for obtaining an injunction of the underworld court against the spirits

> possibility spirits may launch a countersuit against you
> Feasibility of using mediums/exorcists as arbitrators
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Edward W. Profile picture
26 Jan
Cf Les Termes De La Ley, where the French text is printed in Roman type (i.e a romance language) whereas the English is printed in blackletter (for a germanic language)
books.google.com/books?id=JLxkA… Image
Although, strangely enough, Coke on Littleton does the reverse: the French Littleton is in blackletter (middle col), the English (R col) is in Roman type. However, in Coke's commentary on Littleton, (L col) the English text is again in blackletter, & latin bits in Roman... Image
I recall reading that German schools in the 19thc. taught their children to write Germanic words with a kind of script descended from fraktur or blackletter (comparable to our Secretary hand), but words derived from Romance languages, a roman-derived script should be used ...
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25 Jan
My gut feeling is that this "concertina binding" was- and is- primarily motivated for the sake of religious recitation. This binding has two unique features
1- it can lie absolutely flat in the surface
2- it can be easily and rapidly turned.
both features are highly valuable when you are say, chanting a sutra or a liturgy, where you do not have time to fiddle about with codices. I have personally seen daoist priests carry manuscript concertina books, no more than 2 fingers wide, as an aide-memoire when doing rituals.
such tiny books can be turned with one finger alone, and discreetly consulted.
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25 Jan
hewwo!!!!! 2day we r going 2 talk abt ast-OwO-gy and the Pwwwanet senpais!!!!!

u see the pawwanets r rly rly impowetant in ast-OwO-gwwy and the ast-OwO-gewwrs use them all the time in theiwwr pwwedictions UwU
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the owwld ast-owogewwrs used seven pwwanets in their pwwerdictions UwU. we now know there r more pwwanets but lets stawwt with the 7 cos its easier lol.

i wwiwwl tawwke my descwwiptions fwwom wiwwiam wwwiwwwy senpai-s Christian Astrology OwO
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the fiwwst is SATURN SENPAI (●Д●)
he is rly slow, taking 30 yrs to go once round the zodiac.
The owwld astwwowogweers said he is the greater mawwefic, bcos he can get rly angwwy... he is awwso the wwuler of l-OwO-nliness and sadness... 。゜(´Ｏ`)゜゜。
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25 Jan
Some observations on the recent @AstrologyCast episode involving @CampReEducation

1- Regarding the intersection between astrology and religion, the scholar @JeffreyKotyk, who would consider it (at least for academic purposes) form of religion
A full exposition on this matter may be found here ; a summary by me :
A second point brought up in the @AstrologyCast episode were the implications between the causes/signs debate on how astrology works. In brief, if astral configurations were the actual causes of events, it would be possible to exploit or manipulate them to achieve one's goals...
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Edward W. Profile picture
24 Jan
In this thread I will add my observations about two early english translations of the works of Claude Gariot on astrology.

These works are significant, as they are amongst the earliest sustained bks on astrology in English, but also contain echoes of what you find in Lilly...
As you can see above, there are two editions of the work. The first was published (according to EEBO) by Thomas Purfoot in 1583. The Second edn, Published in 1598, is more than double the length of the first edn, and contains many substantial differences, as well as a new section
<You can tell the difference between the two edns, because the 1583 edn is printed in blackletter, and the 1593 edn is in Roman type. The images i use in this thread are from the EEBO scans of the books, which may be downloaded if you have a library subscription, etc.>
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23 Jan
"Astrono-omenology" [=> Astro-omenology?] is a term that is most useful indeed...
<personally, i find "astro-omenology" a very useful term to describe the astrological interpretation of phenomena that occur suddenly and unpredictably, like comets or supernovae, as opposed to predictions made from more regularly recurring events, like equinoxes, or eclipses...
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