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Thanks Prudy, that was a great post. Would you mind if I passed it on
?...just joking..LOL
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----- Original Message -----
From: Prudence L. Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] WHY ARE THERE WITCHES?
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 10/17/1999 12:31:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Today, there are modern "good witch" movements, like Wicca. Stephens
argues
> that voluntary participation in "witchcraft" is the same old question
asked
> in a new way. It is another attempt, by people who find Christianity
> unsatisfying, to make the spirit world seem real. The difference between
> inquisitors of yore and modern witches is that the latter are unafraid --
> indeed eager -- to admit their dissatisfaction with Christianity.
> http://www.newswise.com/articles/1999/10/WITCHES.JHU.html >>
>
> Apparently all are not dissatisfied with Christianity. One of the most
> interesting things I ever read about witches was in a little, rather
> autobiographical book by
> Elizabeth Gouge (one of England's really good novelists of the
> forties-fifties era). I don't remember exactly the name of the little
book,
> and I have never been able to get my hands on a copy, but she wrote it
rather
> near the end of her life, and in it was a bit about witchcraft. She was
the
> daughter of a vicar, and the incident she spoke of was related to her by
her
> school friend who was also a vicar's daughter. According to Gouge, black
> magic was too disgusting to speak or write about, but white magic was a
good
> thing, and every village in England had its white witch who was an
> herbalist/seer type. Anyway, it seems that these white witches attended
> church like everyone else, and felt that their practice of the craft in no
> way alienated them from the community. It also seemed that a woman had
to
> instruct a man and a man a woman when passing on the art/craft. Well, the
> very dignified, churchgoing elderly lady who was the white witch in the
> village where the friend's father was vicar, came to him and told him that
> she had carefully looked over all the men in the village, and had finally
> decided that the most truly good of all of them was he; therefore she
wanted
> to instruct him in the art as she knew it. She left in tears when he
> explained to her that he was forbidden to practice witchcraft, and that
> witchcraft was not acceptable to Christianity. Apparently it had never
> occurred to her that spells and herbalism were not compatible with the
> Christian faith. Prudy
>
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