Wiccans and witches - do you find the 'traditional' Halloween witch decorations offensive?
I know several women (an Internet group) who are Wiccans and / or witches and they all really like the witch decorations Halloween. Some say it reminds them of days when things were not so complicated and people do not take holidays too seriously.
How about you?
I am not pagan, but one of the witches who posted a great story about why the witch looked like her, his nose broken by the blows of the witch trial, his skin jaundiced. If someone is that I want to get a copy.
I found the change of
Faerie Girl
Halloween Witch
Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween Witch.
Deformed face green and stringy bits of hair, a toothless mouth under his nose deformed. Gnarled fingers twisted into gnarled claws extending from a bent and twisted trunk that sways on its wobbly legs.Most think this abject image to the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature. I disagree, I think that is 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 the night to be presented by the light of day as a confessed Witch. Little or not seen a woman apparently normal fear of being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture to be interviewed until she confessed to anything suggested to her and to give names or what would stop the questions.
Crowds saw the aberration denounced internationally as a so-called witch. As the Witch was paraded through town en route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned or disposed of various other forms of Christian love have all been created to release and save his soul from his body depraved, the hooting of Crowds saw the results of hours of torture. Her face bruised and broken by countless blows wore a sickly shade of green. The warm and loving smile gone replaced by a grimace of broken teeth and torn gums that Leers in a battered disfigured nose.Hair tousled occult bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn the beautiful hair. Broken twisted hands clutched the wagon for support, broken fingers with nails torn away locked like groping claws to stabilize his broken body. Any semblance of humanity gone this was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a witch.
I revere this Halloween Crone and hold her sacred above all. I have the honor of his courage and listen to his warnings of the dark side of man. Each year I shed tears of respect when their exposure banal symbol of Christian love.
