Saturday, September 29, 2012
SATURDAY INQUISITION BLOGGING
iron gallows furnished w/ a specied of spiritual lighning-rods made according to arcane + complex precepts, were used for hanging alchemists who failed to turn base meals into gold for the princely masters. the fear that the hanged man's demoniacal familiars might gain heir master's secrets from the cadaver promptthe adoption of these prudent precautions. also hung w/ cabalistic geometry. german engraving 1739.
