Remember my attempts back in June to identify the precise nature of the dead weasel spell unleashed in Hoquiam, Washington over the summer? In the comments Rob did come up with some possible ideas, but at the time nobody really knew whether this was some sort of magical operation or just a very strange one. However, more recent evidence suggests that the weasel-unleasher is a magician after all. He was just acquitted of wrongdoing in connection with the weasel assault.A jury acquitted a Hoquiam man who was accused of breaking into a home and throwing a dead mink at another man during a confrontation that made weasel headlines across the country.
Defense lawyer Chris Crew said Monday the Grays Harbor County jury found 33-year-old Jobie J. Watkins of Hoquiam not guilty of burglary.
Crew said witnesses provided inconsistent accounts and the "prosecution failed to prove a link to the mink."
It's not a mink, it's a martin, dammit! And now I punch the author of this article. What I find incredible is that a jury could possibly think that anyone would just make the story up. It's way too weird, which suggested it being a spell in the first place. But a magician could probably pull it off using a really powerful spell for obtaining legal victories. If you have access to decent collection of grimoires, you can find a lot of those all across the Western Esoteric Tradition.
I've never seen a necromantic version, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. I wonder what sort of dead animal you would use. Liber 777 lists elephant and spider for Libra, which rules legal proceedings. The former is completely impractical unless you could work with a piece of ivory rather than an entire body, but the latter is quite easy to obtain almost anywhere. On the other hand, neither mink, martin, nor weasel appear anywhere in the 777 animals column, so Watkins is probably using a totally different set of attributions.
My father used to say that Hoquiam was a weird part of the world. The Finns there tend to be pretty xenophobic to the third generation or so and are an insular community. I have found three completely independent, more or less reliable, sources that say that Finns, as a people,have a disproportionate number of magical practitioners. Also in the history of the Aberdeen area having people just up and disappear is hardly uncommon.
ReplyDeleteThat's very interesting. I don't know much about the area, but if there are indeed more magical practitioners around Hoquiam that could go a long way towards explaining the dead weasel weirdness. Without a magical angle it sure doesn't seem to make much sense.
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