Short Story 161: The Walking Sticks

Robert Pirkola · 01 Jun 2018, 19:38 · from 2018-June.txt.gz

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From: rpirkola at hotmail.com (Robert Pirkola)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:38:52 +0000
Subject: (urth)  Short Story 161: The Walking Sticks
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I was reading *Rosemary's Baby* recently and bumped into a reference to one Thomas Weir, an infamous witch.  There was an interesting tale associated
with him that I thought relevant to the GW short story "The Walking Sticks".  It is said that he "derived his power from his walking stick, topped by a carved human head, giving rise to later accounts that it had often been seen parading down the street in front of him."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Weir.

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