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Equine Elegance
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This thread isn't 'weird' at all!
It is a perfectly logical exploration of the ways to keep troublesome fillies under control!
NOW you got me hooked!
If you don't have dreams you have nothing to strive for...View attachment 236067 Dream on fellah .... wishful thinker.
Tree
RacingRodent
Consul
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B Yeats (Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)
crucifer
Magistrate
Absolutely correct, my mind was elsewhere!You mean "points" .... I think?
crucifer
Magistrate
Then, she would just need to be 'broken in'.
I think it's time to initiate the men here into an interesting part of my Scottish heritage 
The Society of the Horseman's Word was a fraternal secret society that operated in Scotland from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century. Its members were drawn from those who worked with horses, including horse trainers, blacksmiths and ploughmen, and involved the teaching of magical rituals designed to provide the practitioner with the ability to control both horses and women. It also acted as a form of trade union, aiming to gain better rights for its members.
The initiation rituals into the society incorporated a number of elements such as reading passages from the Biblebackwards, and the secrets included Masonic-style oaths, gestures, passwords and handshakes. Like the similar societies of the Miller's Word and the Toadsmen, they were believed to have practiced witchcraft. In East Anglia, horsemen with these powers were sometimes called Horse Witches.
The Word
After the candidate completed the initiation ceremony he was then given a word that was supposed to give him power over horses. So aside from being a secret society "The Horseman’s Word" was actually a spoken word. This secret word, which varied by location, was said to have magical and mystical qualities which would allow the keeper of the word to possess the ability by merely whispering it to bring horses under their complete control. Apart from gaining knowledge of the secret word more practical information and techniques about controlling and training horses was also passed on to members of the society. These methods were kept secret and done in such a way that the horseman maintained their reputation as having unique and even magical power over horses.
(and women?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Horseman's_Word
The Society of the Horseman's Word was a fraternal secret society that operated in Scotland from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century. Its members were drawn from those who worked with horses, including horse trainers, blacksmiths and ploughmen, and involved the teaching of magical rituals designed to provide the practitioner with the ability to control both horses and women.
It also acted as a form of trade union, aiming to gain better rights for its members.The initiation rituals into the society incorporated a number of elements such as reading passages from the Biblebackwards, and the secrets included Masonic-style oaths, gestures, passwords and handshakes. Like the similar societies of the Miller's Word and the Toadsmen, they were believed to have practiced witchcraft. In East Anglia, horsemen with these powers were sometimes called Horse Witches.
The Word
After the candidate completed the initiation ceremony he was then given a word that was supposed to give him power over horses. So aside from being a secret society "The Horseman’s Word" was actually a spoken word. This secret word, which varied by location, was said to have magical and mystical qualities which would allow the keeper of the word to possess the ability by merely whispering it to bring horses under their complete control. Apart from gaining knowledge of the secret word more practical information and techniques about controlling and training horses was also passed on to members of the society. These methods were kept secret and done in such a way that the horseman maintained their reputation as having unique and even magical power over horses.
(and women?
)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Horseman's_Word
Primus pilus
Magister Australis
Pp's early experiences with working horses and more recent experiences here would confirm that managing both has so much in common.
A good horseman controls a well-trained horse with the gentlest of touches of voice, hand, knee and heel together with the slightest shifts of weight.
Having seen you in your thin little white shift, I can see the point ....
Is there nobody who cared about Grandpa's libido?You mean "points" .... I think?
Looks like Tree is eager here to get a bit between my teeth and a plug in my ass ... I am not a horse Tree....I don't leave piles wherever I go!!!!!!
crucifer
Magistrate
Very interesting Eulalia - no, I am serious. Your profound erudition makes me even more curious about your role in the Northern Forest. You are too young to be Kitty and she is the only real person I have met from the NF, apart from Mrs C who was born in Annan which is a bit too far east.I think it's time to initiate the men here into an interesting part of my Scottish heritage
The Society of the Horseman's Word was a fraternal secret society that operated in Scotland from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century. Its members were drawn from those who worked with horses, including horse trainers, blacksmiths and ploughmen, and involved the teaching of magical rituals designed to provide the practitioner with the ability to control both horses and women.
The initiation rituals into the society incorporated a number of elements such as reading passages from the Biblebackwards, and the secrets included Masonic-style oaths, gestures, passwords and handshakes. Like the similar societies of the Miller's Word and the Toadsmen, they were believed to have practiced witchcraft. In East Anglia, horsemen with these powers were sometimes called Horse Witches.
The Word
After the candidate completed the initiation ceremony he was then given a word that was supposed to give him power over horses. So aside from being a secret society "The Horseman’s Word" was actually a spoken word. This secret word, which varied by location, was said to have magical and mystical qualities which would allow the keeper of the word to possess the ability by merely whispering it to bring horses under their complete control. Apart from gaining knowledge of the secret word more practical information and techniques about controlling and training horses was also passed on to members of the society. These methods were kept secret and done in such a way that the horseman maintained their reputation as having unique and even magical power over horses.
(and women?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Horseman's_Word
Primus pilus
Magister Australis
One that clearly has loads of
Pp can control women without talking (Walk softly and carry a big whip)
crucifer
Magistrate
But surely, it is not politically correct to whip horses into obedience?
You will notice I did not say 'horse'! Are you trying to get me in trouble with PETA???
