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However, there was the problem of apportioning the crime statistics, and so there arose a complex system of annual budgeting, chits and allowances to see that a) the members could make a reasonable living and b) no citizen was robbed or assaulted more than an agreed number of times. Many foresighted citizens in fact arranged to get an acceptable minimum of theft, assault, etc, over at the beginning of the financial year, often in the privacy and comfort of their own homes, and thus be able to walk the streets quite safely for the rest of the year. It all ticked over extremely peacefully and efficiently, demonstrating once again that compared to the Patrician of Ankh, Machiavelli could not have run a whelk stall.
* The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts
** Except for the Zabingo tribe of the Great Nef, of course.
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“In Margaret Murray’s book “The Witch Cult in Western Europe” you will find a number of Magrats and Magrets, and a suggestion that they were not misspellings but an earlier form of Margaret; also in the lists of those arraigned for witchcraft are the surnames Garlick, Device and Nutter. No Oggs or Weatherwax’s, though.”
“This brings us back to Pierre de Lancre. He became convinced that Basque women where an immoral and unfaithful lot when observing their social arrangements during his witch-hunting expedition. De Lancre was especially horrified at the leadership roles in religious services taken by Basque women, the very women among whom witchcraft was rife …”
Terry comments: “I’m astonished. I’ve never heard of the guy, and I’m reasonably well-read in that area. But it
Lords and Ladies
Julius Caesar
Keep an eye on Macbeth, act 4, scene 1. It’s one of Terry’s favourites in
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