[stylist] Harry Potter/Wicca

[Eve Sanchez]

Justin, Have you ever heard of Karma? I believe they did. Eve

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:46 PM, justin <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did those salem women get punished?
>
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> Ashley,
>
> Most people labeled witches in the past were given this title because they
> didn't confirm to societal standards at the time, and it was often used to
> get rid of a person not afraid to express ideas and opinions contrary to the
> status quo. It was an erroneous label used for others to gain something.
>
> In the case of the Salem witch trials, it initially started after a group of
> young girls claimed that certain women were witches. It's not certain why
> they did this, but they brought a convincing case, at the time, to those in
> authority. Later, they would admit to fabricating the whole thing but not
> until the trials were long underway.
>
> Because the practice of witchcraft was considered heretical and evil, and at
> the time, Christianity was a ruling force, arresting so-called witches,
> placing them on trial and hanging or burning them was a legal practice.
> There are various reasons as to why this was allowed and why people went
> along with it, whether they truly believed the claims or not.
>
> As mentioned above, women who didn't conform to certain ideals or who
> preferred to live more independently, which included expressing a sexual
> side, were often labeled witches but also labeled prostitutes. This was a
> common label given to women who nowadays would make up a large number of
> people. Obviously our concepts of what constitutes right and wrong living
> for women has changed, or at least is more accepted, but in the past, the
> world was a different place.
>
> So most people accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death were not
> actually practicing witches but were persecuted because of a different way
> of life or for believing something different than the majority of the
> population or simply because someone wanted them out of the way.
>
> This goes back a little further than the Salem witch trials, but one example
> that comes to mind is Anne Boleyn, Henry the eighth's second wife. When he
> wanted to get rid of her to marry another, he claimed she had seduced him
> through witchcraft, which had become a popular belief about Anne at the time
> because she was not well liked among the populist. Later, it would be
> recorded that she had marks of a witch such as a sixth finger or a mole,
> which were long-held beliefs at the time proving someone was a witch. It's
> pretty widely accepted nowadays that these were fabricated stories made up
> posthumously as there is no proof of these so-called witches marks on the
> body of Anne Boleyn from her time, which had she had them, would have been
> noted and commented upon during her lifetime.
>
> Bridgit
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> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:09 -0400
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Harry Potter/Wicca?
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> Lori,
> good question. What is wicca and how is that different than witchcraft?
> I know wicca is still practiced a little as a religion. But is witchcraft? I
> thought that died out  in the 1800s.
>
> Speaking of witches, why were some women called witches and what brought
>
> about the Salem witch trials?
> I thought I read somewhere that they acted odd because of some disease that
> was not diagnosed at the time.
> But at the time, people thought they were evil.
>
> If anyone can recommend a book about witch history, the Salem trials or
> wicca that would be good. Its an area in which I haven't learned much about.
> I like nonfiction or historic fiction. Both would give me a sense of the
> practices although historical fiction is of course false details but has its
> roots in truth.
>
> Ashley
>
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