Merrikat enjoys a bit of the paranormal within the universe sometimes. In her spare time, she will go online and read up on that kind of stuff.
I visited a forum today and actually signed up for it, which is something that I just don’t do. There was a post that intrigued me so much that I had to do it. Compelling!
I thought I would share what I said there, but perhaps more lengthy here due to avoiding boring the hell out of people even before getting to the point. Short and sweet. That’s how you have to deal with some people, right?
When I first decided to read this forum posting, I had speculated that the thread was probably lumping Satanism, Cults, and Wicca together. After all, the title was “Satanism/Cults/Wicca?” I was pleasantly surprised that it was not lumping at all. Reading a bit further I stumbled upon a reply of someone who heard that some ‘witches’ went to a cemetery and had a ceremony, and some guy ended up accidentally stabbing himself in the foot with his SWORD. That in itself should tell you that ain’t right. If you accidentally stab yourself with a SWORD at a wiccan cemetery ceremony, you might be a redneck.
I like details, details, details!
I think a lot of this stuff would eventually clear up if we were to do research on a topic before getting into a discussion. Debates might not be as much fun anymore, but it would end debates that just turn into opinionated fighting.
I’ve browsed through many a books dealing with the Wiccan faith – so far, I’ve not heard any of them suggest you walk out to a cemetery with your ‘sword’ and have a grand ceremony. Credible texts state that a ceremonial site should be clean, organized, quiet, and most importantly, peaceful. An altar is usually always involved, why these people decided to make or take an altar cemetery style is beyond me. To each their own, I guess…?
No matter what spiritual take you have in your life–it will always be tainted. Bad seeds come in all forms of spiritual faith claiming to be what they certainly are not. Jim Jones will tell you the kool-aid’s all right, Marshall Applewhite rode the comet, and Michael Travesser will say no worries, your kids are fine. It doesn’t matter, there will always be groups that take it to the extreme. Wicca is no different.
Trendsetting. You get people wanting to be able to call themselves a ‘witch.’ Or perhaps they’ve heard the stories that Wiccans can cast spells and do whatever they wish. They begin to think they can get back at those who wronged them. They can make the school bully fall flat on his face, or they can make their ex boyfriend’s new girlfriend’s hair fall out–all with their MIND! It doesn’t work that way. If you could make something like that happen while claiming yourself wiccan, all that negative energy you directed at someone will come back– to you. This means everything that you thought could never go wrong in your life most likely will.
Wicca is all about positive energy. You project your positive energy and thoughts into something–that something could be a candle, an athame, or a stone. You could say it resembles praying in a way– you sit down and pray someone healed, you pray for improvements, or you just pray for help. The Wiccan way has more visualization for symbolism and is more earth based–but by no means is that being evil.
If anyone ever tells you about black magic (any spell with negative intent is black magic to a wiccan) claiming to be a witch, tell em they’re a Satanist. If they tell you they decided to go to the cemetery with a huge sword claiming to be a witch, tell em they’re an idiot.
