“A police force has consulted a “warlock” in an attempt to unravel a spate of mysterious incidents of horses having their manes plaited.
Owners in west Dorset and the surrounding counties had believed that thieves plaited the manes of the beasts to identify which ones to steal when they returned at night.
But police officers investigating the incidents said there had been no thefts, and instead their enquiries led to the world of pagan ritual.”
Telegraph (thanks, Ferkle)
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Hahahaha!! I the grand warlock stole their horses then summoned some plaited horses as decoys!!!
Hmm. Looks like the horse in the picture could benefit from some mane styling tips
Bet it was the hairdressers. Nasty lot hairdressers, always asking about your holidays then not burgling your house when you’re away…same modus operandi.
All I will say is that whoever it is doing this would need to be quite good with horses (as it says one horse that was plaited is difficult). Very strange……
LC x
… but did the police ever released any information about how tall these horses are?
If they are miniature horses I would aboslutely blame a certain gnome warlock …
Apparently this is fairly common.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2391027.stm
Entertainment is hard to come by in rural areas.
Well, if it is plaiting only that would happen to them … that’s not bad. We’ve had way worse things going on here, very disgusting.
But thy shall not plait someone else’s horse … white magic practisers should know about that .. otherwise they’d been spreading black vibes to the owners and possibly to the horses as well …
Maybe someone who’s still learning to plait horses’ manes and needs volunteers ..
Lots of options ..
apparently this is not all that happens to them…altho who knows if it’s all being done by the same people.
The incidents have ranged from sexual abuse and slashings to “odd” behaviour such as the plaiting of horses’ manes.
hmm…what’s danny radcliffe up to these days…
I’ve heard of ‘knot magic’, but it usually involves tying a cord or ribbon (usually 9 – 13 inches in length,) in to nine seperate knots. Never heard of pagans using horse hair or a plaiting method. Very unusual.
I blame it on global warming, see with the warming it is no longer possible to do crop circles as the crops don’t hold so well and it has had an adverse effect on the horses hair, where as human hair can go frizzy in hot humid conditions horses hairs plait themselves. LOL
Well.. that’s interesting. I agree with one of the other commenters, must be hairdressers! If it’s gypsies ‘marking’ horses for when they come back, the horses wouldn’t be there to be seen, surely?
do youse guys still use the word “warlock\” in britain? here in the US, it\’s not considered a valid designation anymore.
Roz, the quotation marks around \”warlock\” are kind of a hint…
Ha! Ha!….just found plaits in two of our horses manes today!..got stressed out ‘cos of the “pikey- marking horses to steal” rumour…….I’m a “pagan” ish person meself [don't like this word tho']………if any “pagans” want to put plaits in my horses mane THEY ARE WELCOME! [just ask me first!]….bit worried to read that ancient followers of EPONA used to burn horses alive [and that "kings" had to f**k a white mare!.....you can't do that!...anyways we hav'nt any white mares!].Bit strange that the two horses that were plaited were both coloured animals [brown and white-Skewbalds]…..these are the only horses in the herd that would be worth anything to our irish travelling friends [ooooo!....NOT very P.C!]……still sitting in the field with a shotgun!- but i won’t shoot pagans!.Love from Ponypunk.
Nope, after scouring the net to settle my curiosity I haven’t found a shred of information on plaiting horses’ hair for the purposes of magic. I have been a pagan all my life and in my experience the only ‘plaits’ used in rituals would be knot magic, traditionally cords, in which each knot represents an intention, or a prayer, much in the same manner as rosary beads, but I have never heard of actual plaiting. However, I am a soppy girl who loves horses and am guilty of hugging and probably plaiting many horses manes while they are stood still in a field, probably bored and peeved at me for not bringing any carrots! I say it’s horse mad girls, or yes, as in the last case, pikies! haha, someone is going to tell me off!