Beheading Witches

Hey Silverhorners, including those of you who are 'witches' (you know who you are) there is good news in the black magic business. The folks in charge of a little out of the way place in Europe, called Glarus, have figured out how to finally get their little town into the news. They have decided to issue a pardon to a witch who was beheaded some 200 years ago.

The alleged witch, Anna Goeldi, lost her head after she was blamed and convicted of being responsible for the death of a young girl. Outraged villagers, it's always outraged villagers who go after witches, tracked her down and put her to death in 1782 in what is now being described as an 'illegal trial' But all is forgiven now, at least as far as the villagers are concerned, I'm sure the witch is not in a forgiving mood even though the villagers are now heralding her as a symbolic figure, almost a heroine...can you spell toursim opportunity?

But it's not as simple as it may seem, apparently the local protestant church, a congregation who are usually a little less particular about such things, no wait, that's baptists...and the right wing Swiss People's Party, SPP are not in favor of making a star out of a witch.

However, it seems that a combined group of investigators, probably what we would call a "Cold Case" squad, teamed up with I'm betting some tourism consultants, and figured out that this was a wrong that needed to be righted. The poor dear witch, who was 48 when her head was whacked off, was apparently an illiterate housemaid, who may very well have confessed under duress...um...torture....But it's gonna be all made up to her because the government of Glarus has set aside about $100,000 to be used for a play in her honor and they already have the museum opened...I wonder what all would be in a museum about a witch who had her head cut off? I'm thinking an axe, a chopping block and a bucket, and that's pretty much all you need you've got a museum.

It's time these wrongs were righted, and the 100,000 people (mostly women) who were burned alive in Europe should all have their own museum. It was tough driving a broom in the 15th century, kind of like driving an SUV in this century....

The closest thing we ever have to a beheading here on Silverhorn Mountain usually occurs around Thanksgiving when we accuse, try and convict a few turkeys....and the punishment is tough, a beheaded, stuffed and then burned in an oven by my wife who seems to have it in for the turkeys...Perhaps I should ask the Silverhorn Mountain Municipal officials for some money to open a turkey museum. Might put us back on the tourist maps too!