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10/27/2006
5:03:09 pm EDT
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Something Wiccan This Way Comes
Author: Kay Campbell Source: Huntsville Times (AL)
Title: SOMETHING WICCAN THIS WAY COMES
Rebecca Walkoff knows that she could never pass a psychological test. "I hear voices," Walkoff, 47, said last week as she enjoyed a cigarette outside her store, The Moon Willow, just off the Fayetteville Square. "I see visions."
Walkoff shrugged, her green eyes twinkling, and snubbed out the cigarette.
"Magic is everywhere you look, if you're inclined to see it," she said. "I'd rather be a person who sees it."
She's untroubled by an outside assessment of her sanity or what people think of her when she identifies herself as a Christian Wiccan.
Though she considers herself a believer in Jesus, Walkoff also embraces a label, "witch," that was a death sentence for an estimated 100,000 people, mostly women, during the European witch-hunting period from 1450 to 1700. The mass hysteria by church leaders was "one of the longest and most bizarre delusions in Western history," says Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions.
Walkoff is quick to assure questioners that she does not worship the devil - Wiccans do not believe in a devil - and that the Wiccan creed is "And it harm none, do what you will," a creed that guarantees that she tries to generate only good energy and deeds.
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| Burning Times List... 236,870 | Oct 28th. at 7:43:57 pm EDT
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The Rev. Sparrowhawk (Yakima, Washington) - Email Me
There is a list at www.thewitchesway.net. It seems far more accurate than the greatly exagerated 9 million count. This is what it says at the end of the entire Burning Times List:
"...for a total of 236,870 (unknowns listed)
Frank Donovan says: "Several modern writers claim that 9,000,000 people met their deaths during the witchcraft persecution but offer no valid statistical records to support this estimate. On the other end of the scale is the 'educated guess' of R.H.Robbins and others that the total may have been about 200,000. Contemporary records are spotty and incomplete. Many deaths were probably never recorded and other archives have been lost thru time." It is this writer's opinion that - one-half million - executed is a reasonable estimated total."
As for the girl claiming to be a Christian Wiccan, who cares what she believes. She is free to combine whatever religious beliefs she chooses. Most modern Pagans already combine a ton of stuff together anyway. Whay can't she? Hmmm... You might even consider her to be 'eclectic.'
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| I Wish | Oct 28th. at 7:40:16 pm EDT
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Jenna (Cary, North Carolina) - Email Me
that Christians who wish to perform magick would refer to themselves as just just "magical Christians". While there is a lot of diversity in Wicca, it's pretty universally agreed that this is a pagan belief system where one does not have a central holy book, and that Jesus had no greater divinity than the rest of us.There are plenty of magical traditions that have successfully blended Christianity and magick (VouDou, Santeria, etc.) that Christians who wish to practice magick need not co-op Wicca.
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| Please Don't Smack Me | Oct 28th. at 11:41:50 am EDT
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
Many of the older books will reference numbers in the millions during the burning times. But since they were written more research has been done and there were some problems with the original math.
Double counting and bad estimates etcetera.
It doesn't really matter though because when it comes down to it ONE person burned alive at the stake in the name of a "Holy" mission for God would have been too many.
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| Better All The Time | Oct 27th. at 6:24:18 pm EDT
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Azrael (Manteca, California) - Email Me
This article, happily, gets quite a bit right and doesn't take "that tone" that so many past articles have taken when dealing with Wicca and Witchcraft. I still cringe when I see grammatical errors such as calling the religion 'Wiccan' instead of Wicca and, of course, when I see things like Dr. Gardner having "recovered" Wicca, but overall, the info is good. I'm glad the media is hating us less and less.
As to the figures about the Burning Times, the rough estimate, last I checked, is about 100,000 men, women and children murdered in the name of God and Christ. As records are found, however, the number goes down and the true numbers are likely closer to 60,000. And the majority of heretics were, in fact, Christian.
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