[stylist] Harry Potter/Wicca

Mon May 20 04:01:40 UTC 2013

Yeah, I guess so.  Karma. 

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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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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit 
> Pollpeter
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 11:34 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] Harry Potter/Wicca
>
> 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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> 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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