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Date Posted:
10/11/2007
1:11:48 pm EDT
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Paganism Not About Bubbling Cauldrons
Author: Missy Smith Source: dailyillini.com
Title: PAGANISM NOT ABOUT BUBBLING CAULDRONS
Pointed hats, boiling cauldrons, high-pitched cackles, flying around the open sky on a broom. These are what most people envision when they think of witches, especially during the Halloween season.
Paganism is a broad term that encompasses many systems of belief. There is no one way to define it because each person follows their own set of beliefs and worships their own personal deities.
Pagans and Wiccans battle misconceptions every day, when in fact they are just average people.
David Kees, staff member in Engineering, said most Pagans are simply trying to get by in their job, support their family and friends, enjoy life and be happy.
"I try to stress that we're not really all that different from the average person," Kees said. "We just practice a different religion. This makes us no more evil or good than anyone else who practices a different religion."
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| Lovely | Oct 12th. at 11:08:39 am EDT
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Lady-hearted Mojo (Irving, Texas) - Email Me
What a lovely article, and I loved the description of Cunningham. Like most Wiccans, Cunningham's books were some of the first ones I read and while not indepth, they were and still are a great place to start despite the fact that he gets labeled as "fluffy-bunny". More than a decade later of practice, I think of his books as "primers" on Wicca...you gotta start somewhere and with some of the cr*p that's out there you can do far, far worse than Scott Cunningham. Ah, what a nice trip down memory lane, ha ha.
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