I've heard that the sheriff's department is getting the *dunking machine* out
and filling it up. Confessions extracted! Three throws for a dollar!
From: eustace10679 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 12:33 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Wicca experts denounce Florida sheriff for linking
triple murder to 'witchcraft'
Police say they are investigating the role of a recent ‘blue moon,’ after
the bodies of a man and his two sons were discovered dead at home on Friday
[Police tape blocks off a home in Pensacola, Florida where a triple homicide is
being investigated. Photograph: Tony Giberson/AP]
Nicky Woolf in New York
Wednesday 5 August 2015 14.54 EDT
Last modified on Thursday 6 August 2015 13.40 EDT
Leading experts and practitioners of Wicca and other pagan religions have
denounced a Florida sheriff’s department after police announced that a triple
murder was a “ritualistic killing” linked to “witchcraft”.
The bodies of a man and his two sons were discovered on Friday in a house in
Escambia County in the Florida panhandle, after a routine welfare check.
They had been bludgeoned to death on the afternoon of 28 July, with what police
said had been a claw-hammer, and their throats had been slit. One of the sons,
who was a Department of Homeland Security employee, had also been shot through
the head.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Escambia County sheriff David Morgan told
reporters that his department was investigating a connection with “witchcraft”,
saying that the “method of the murder, blunt force traumas, slit throats,
positions of bodies and then our person of interest has some ties to a faith or
religion that is indicative of that”.
“Those of you that follow any of that will also note that at the time of death
we believe on Tuesday it also coincides with what’s referred to as a blue
moon,” Morgan added.
A “blue moon” is when a full moon occurs twice within one month, giving a year
13 full moons instead of 12, and one indeed occurred that week – though the
astronomical rarity actually happened on Friday, the day the bodies were found,
rather than on Tuesday, when police say the murders took place.
“If they had done even a modicum of research it would be clear this had nothing
to do with paganism,” said Dr Gwendolyn Reece, a specialist in contemporary
paganism at American University. “It’s very irresponsible and highly prejudiced
on the part of the sheriff.”
While Morgan referred to “witchcraft” in his conference, Andrew Hobbes, a
spokesperson for his department, referred to Wicca specifically in a statement
to NBC News.
Selena Fox, a Wiccan priestess and the senior minister of Circle Sanctuary, one
of America’s largest Wiccan churches, said that many in the movement found
their statements very troubling. “Ritual murder is not part of the Wiccan
religion, it never has been, and it’s not now,” she said. “It goes against the
ethical principles of the religion.”
Fox, who is also executive director of Lady Liberty League, a pressure group
which lobbies for rights for Wiccan and pagan beliefs, described Morgan’s
statement and many of the media coverage that has followed it as “defamation”.
Wicca and other nature religions, she said, are “about celebrating life and
celebrating the cycles of the season and nature – and living in harmony with
other humans. If more people understood that, there would be less prejudice”.
“There are so many crime shows on TV and the internet [that involve
witchcraft], and I think that some storylines can complicate reporting on
actual crimes,” Fox added.
Wicca experts denounce Florida sheriff for linking triple murder to
'witchcraft'
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