Irridescent Sacrifices

This has to be the funniest line I've seen yet, regarding an actual witch trial.

"...completing the ritual by sacrificing a butterfly to the Devil." - The Witchcraft Reader

Hehe, and now a little ficlet in honour of the poor butterfly.

He raised the knife high over his head. It was supposed to be his great sacrificial knife, stained by the blood of thousands, but in reality it was a kitchen knife he had filched from his mum when she wasn't looking. She would kill him if he returned it any less than sparkling clean.

The chanting began. It wasn't as if he knew any magical words. There hadn't been any manuals on sacrificing to the Devil at the library. He had asked. So instead, he was chanting nonsense words. The Devil knew what he meant anyway, right?

His voice was getting tired, so he decided to sacrifice his victim. He knew he was supposed to kill a cow or a sheep, or at least a rabbit here, but his mum would be quite annoyed to clean up the blood and did you know how hard it was these days to get ahold of a sacrificial cow? So, he had had to find another victim.

The knife came down. Slicing perfectly through the slender body of his victim. The black ooze that served as its blood welled up, not staining the perfect set of bright orange and black wings on either side.

He waited. The Devil must be having a busy day.

After an hour, he got up and cleaned the knife thouroughly, then regarded his discarded victim, the butterfly.

Oh well. At least he could add it to his bug collection now.

Irridescent Sacrifices

This has to be the funniest line I've seen yet, regarding an actual witch trial.

"...completing the ritual by sacrificing a butterfly to the Devil." - The Witchcraft Reader

Hehe, and now a little ficlet in honour of the poor butterfly.

He raised the knife high over his head. It was supposed to be his great sacrificial knife, stained by the blood of thousands, but in reality it was a kitchen knife he had filched from his mum when she wasn't looking. She would kill him if he returned it any less than sparkling clean.

The chanting began. It wasn't as if he knew any magical words. There hadn't been any manuals on sacrificing to the Devil at the library. He had asked. So instead, he was chanting nonsense words. The Devil knew what he meant anyway, right?

His voice was getting tired, so he decided to sacrifice his victim. He knew he was supposed to kill a cow or a sheep, or at least a rabbit here, but his mum would be quite annoyed to clean up the blood and did you know how hard it was these days to get ahold of a sacrificial cow? So, he had had to find another victim.

The knife came down. Slicing perfectly through the slender body of his victim. The black ooze that served as its blood welled up, not staining the perfect set of bright orange and black wings on either side.

He waited. The Devil must be having a busy day.

After an hour, he got up and cleaned the knife thouroughly, then regarded his discarded victim, the butterfly.

Oh well. At least he could add it to his bug collection now.

Impersonating a Sane Person

Doing research on megaliths for my arch. practical tomorrow. Did you know there is a series of megalithic sites in Japan? *adds to her list of places to visit* I don't really need to do much research on megaliths since I already research these things in my spare time, not to mention make strange trips out to the middle of nowhere in order to visit them. Hey, it's a hobby...Unfortunately, the research is not really about megaliths but about the evolution of ideas about megaliths in archaeological circles. Boring stuff which I'm sure I've researched before but can't remember for the life of me. Oh well.

Should put the teaser for chapter 6 of Goblin Uprising up soon.

Was highly distracted by Madame Hydra's Kenshin fics, but I'm okay now (ie. I finished them...).

Have realized if I work this entire weekend and next week I might get all my work done, but cannot afford to be distracted by anything, not even fanfic (you can see how well my resolve is working *looks guiltily at Madame Hydra's fics...*sigh*)

Very tired, and stress related dreams aren't helping. Enough of this rambling...

ps. aylapascal responded to your review:)

Impersonating a Sane Person

Doing research on megaliths for my arch. practical tomorrow. Did you know there is a series of megalithic sites in Japan? *adds to her list of places to visit* I don't really need to do much research on megaliths since I already research these things in my spare time, not to mention make strange trips out to the middle of nowhere in order to visit them. Hey, it's a hobby...Unfortunately, the research is not really about megaliths but about the evolution of ideas about megaliths in archaeological circles. Boring stuff which I'm sure I've researched before but can't remember for the life of me. Oh well.

Should put the teaser for chapter 6 of Goblin Uprising up soon.

Was highly distracted by Madame Hydra's Kenshin fics, but I'm okay now (ie. I finished them...).

Have realized if I work this entire weekend and next week I might get all my work done, but cannot afford to be distracted by anything, not even fanfic (you can see how well my resolve is working *looks guiltily at Madame Hydra's fics...*sigh*)

Very tired, and stress related dreams aren't helping. Enough of this rambling...

ps. aylapascal responded to your review:)