Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 19-8-2016: Which Witch … ?

Blast … !

And buggeration … 

I DIDN’T get the job … 

Drat …

I do know know if you knew it: but I’m working at the moment.

But not stunningly happy where I am.

So … I’ve been quietly job-hunting: and had an interview, Tuesday, last.

I thought it went comparatively well.

But learnt, yesterday, that I didn’t get the job.

Combined with The fact I’ve heard nothing from the interview a week or two, before?   I’m disappointed.   Definitely disappointed.

Hopefully, something will come along.

But right at the moment … ?

I’m feeling decidedly ungood.

~≈Ç≈~

But let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: scoring five out of five in the process.   The day ALSO saw Olga† and Angel† commenting on my review of The Shining.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video …

Q1) 19th August saw the Salmesbury Witches put on trial.   In which year: 1611, 1612 or 1613?

Q2) Salmesbury is in which English county: Derbyshire, Lancashire or Yorkshire?

Q3) Thomas Potts published his account of the trials of the time.   Which court position did he hold?

Q4) The witches were accused of holding regular meetings.   What name is usually given to these kinds of meeting: shabbaths, sabbaths or sabbats?

Q5) The trials of the Salmesbury Witches were at the same Assizes as those of the Pendle Witches.   The main accused was who: Anathema Gadget, Alia Widget or Alizon Device?

Q6) Were the Samlesbury Witches imprisoned, hung or acquitted?

Q7) These witch trials were influenced by England’s king, James 1st. His book on the subject was called what: the ‘Daemonologie’, the ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ or ‘Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To Live’?

Q8) 19th August also saw four people executed as a result of the Salem Witch trials.   In which year of the 1690s?

Q9) Salem is now called Danvers: and is in which US state: Massachusetts, Maryland or Rhode Island?

Q10) Finally … Arthur Miller wrote THE play about the Salem Witch Trials.   What was it called?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 18th August saw the birth of SF author, Brian Aldiss.   In which year of the 1920s?
A1) 1925.

Q2) He was born in East Dereham.   The parish is in which English country?
A2) Norfolk.

Q3) 1967 Aldiss novel, An Age, was re-titled when published in the US.   Re-titled as what?
A3) Cryptozoic.

Q4) Aldiss’s Helliconia novels were first published in the 1980s.   Name one of the three.
A4) Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer or Helliconia Winter.

Q5) Finally … Aldiss’s short story, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, was the basis of which film?
A5) AI

.I’ll leave you with this thought …

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
From Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens.

And this tune …

Have a good day …








*        I’ve forgotten, myself, Debbi!   At any rate … ?   I’ve the the Helliconia series.   They’re long: as they take place over a Helliconian Great Year.   But well worth a read.

†      Olga‡, Angel^, I think I owe you both a big ‘Thank You’: that’s my most read review.   Thank you: I couldn’t have done it without you!   Now … is now a good time to tell you I’ve seen The Witch?

‡        Olga, I think there’s a whole series about The Film Of The Book!   Oh, and Bladerunner?   Apparently, Dick, himself, thoroughly approved of the film: even though it differed considerably from Dick’ novel.

^        I think I’m going to have to make room for Carrie, Angel.   I seem to recall reading it’s got a very young John Travolta in it …