- Joined
- Dec 21, 2019
How many of them know about the Frost’s “‘Good Witch’s’ Bible” of incest and hebephilia? I’m willing to bet some Wokesters would defend it because LGBTQPI+ rights. They also never bring up that modern pagan witchcraft actually didn’t develop out of Satanic writings in the 17th to 19th centuries. Their “Horned God” was literally just a censored version of Satan. Even in Margaret Murray’s witch cult the witches were sacrificing children.The watered-down/super uwu/crystal magic versions of witchcraft we have these days, is also a direct result of a the Satanic Panic; in that the writers of the books/shows this shit started with had to make it inoffensive as fuck, so as not to be blackballed off bookshelves or the air, by the rampaging religious right in the 80's & 90's.
There actually have been/are folk Christians* who practice magic but they would never call themselves witches or what they do witchcraft and they certainly wouldn’t pray to/invoke pagan gods. That black powah witch can’t practice hoodooh because it’s folk Christianity. She’s stealing (black American) Christian culture. Witches tend to appropriate others’ magical traditions and call it witchcraft and then virtue signal about cultural appropriation.
Outside of the Western world “witchcraft” means negative/harmful or evil magic. Even in the West witchcraft didn’t gain a positive meaning until ignorant Romantic era writers incorrectly said that accused witches were all folk doctors and midwives. They wouldn’t call their village healer a witch/warlock unless the healer had been trying to poison them or sending evil spirits after them. Of course in Africa it’s the “healers” that often get people torturemurdered for witchcraft and practice the black arts, such as chopping up albinos for “medicine”.
*I’m not agreeing with it or saying it’s biblical but it exists.