posted 23 October 2002 10:54 PM
Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween Witch. Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, a toothless mouth beneath her deformed nose. Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw' protracting from a bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs. Most think this abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature. I disagree, I believe this to be how Witches were really seen. Consider that most Witches: were women, were abducted in the night, and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under the secrecy of darkness to be presented by light of day as a confessed Witch.
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agent_saboteur
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posted 24 October 2002 02:55 AM
but no doubt that they wracked their tormentors with nightmares each sawain night.
one week 'til the new year...
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kropotkin1951
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posted 24 October 2002 01:56 PM
You have to give those Middle Ages Christian terrorists their due. They drove out the old religion and for centuries rewrote history.
For those of us of European descent maybe over time we will be able to reclaim our proper heritage of respect for the earth and each other.
Thanks for the link earthmother. On more tiny step on the road back to the truth.
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lagatta
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posted 24 October 2002 02:13 PM
Don't forget what they did to CATS, especially black cats.
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Debra
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posted 24 October 2002 02:26 PM
Cats and witches
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Lima Bean
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posted 24 October 2002 02:38 PM
Has anyone ever read a novel called "On Blackbird Pond"? It's written for young adults, and I think I read it in elementary school, but it stays with me as a really wonderful story of a witch. It portrays her as beautiful, magical and benevolent.
I'll try to find some link or something.
It really fed me a positive idea of witches at a young age. I'm happy I had that.
posted 24 October 2002 04:06 PM
Are the names Freya and Frieda, or Frida, connected? Frida Kahlo would have made a great witch, between Mexican Mayans and Mitteleuropische Mavens ...
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jeff house
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posted 24 October 2002 04:12 PM
quote: Are the names Freya and Frieda, or Frida, connected?
No question. They are all related to the word for "joy". Somehow, too, the word for "peace" has an etymological connection to Freya-Frida.
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