Society of the Horseman’s Word

Society of the Horseman’s Word

A strange Scottish Masonic-esque brotherhood existed that involved witchcraft, horses, early animal activism, and male chauvinism. We’ll let the publisher of Society of the Horseman’s Word explain a little of the group’s history:

This clandestine esoteric society flourished amongst ploughmen in Scotland from the end of the 18th Century until the early 20th. Its members were believed to have supernatural control over horses, and also women and were also associated with witchcraft. . . . Forget notions of dour Victorian morality. We learn from the disapproving pen of the one Scottish ploughman who left a substantial written record that his work mates drank hard, played hard and chased women.