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Subject:	Re: "buttermaker"
From:	Jim Greve <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2003 11:00:29 -0400
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Was it peanut butter?

In Anglo-Saxon times, peanut butter was considered a magical, mysterious
substance that either witches used, or mighty warriors ate before they
slew dragons... 

James R. Greve
Archivist
The Library of Virginia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Watkinson 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:33 AM
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Subject: "buttermaker"


Listers:

 

While I know the last trial for witchcraft in Virginia was circa 1705 in
Princess Anne Co., I have just come across an accusation of witchcraft
in Orange Co. from February 1745 (!).  Rather late in the day it seems.
My question, tho', involves the accusation that "you (the said Barbara
[Moyer] again meaning :) are a Buttermaker meaning that the said Barbara
is a witch."

 

"Buttermaker"?  Any thought on the origin of this epithet?

 

James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.

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