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It’s Witching’s Hour
Author: Jennifer Willis Source: The Portland Tribune (OR)
Title: IT’S WITCHING’S HOUR
In medieval Europe, men and women accused as witches were rounded up and tortured into confessions of witchcraft.
By the time of public execution, the appearance of the condemned person was so drastically altered by battered, putrefied flesh and broken bones and teeth that they looked more monster than human – an image handed down in the green-faced, humpbacked hag we recognize today as the Halloween witch.
There are no exact figures for how many men and women met such gruesome ends in the witch hunts, but the stereotype of the witch as a Satan-worshipping, ugly old woman lives on.
In reality, many – but not all – modern witches are followers of Wicca, a relatively young but increasingly popular religion, practiced in private by individuals and in groups called covens. Some capitalize the word “witch,” others don’t, but with so much prejudice attached to the word, why would people want to identify themselves that way?
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