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Three Old Warlocks

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Three Old Warlocks

You may be familiar with the Witch Country children's rhyme Three Old Warlocks Up a Flue. Though it frequently stands alone, it's actually part of a longer, and rather mysterious, poem of uncertain age and meaning, but with resonant depths.

And heights.

 

Three Old Warlocks

 

Three old warlocks

up a flue:

one flew away,

and then there were two.

One flew away,

and then there was one.

One flew away,

and then there were none.

 

Three old warlocks

up a flue:

 one went over,

one went under,

and one went through.

 

 

For FCM and KMZ

Bros

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.
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  • Kile Martz
    Kile Martz Wednesday, 15 July 2020

    First meeting of the Flue Flyers Guild?

  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch Friday, 17 July 2020

    Who says the Potteriad is fiction?

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