Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Bred in the Bone
Why are some people witches and some not?
Well, it's easy, really: we were born this way.
He sired us himself.
Yes, you are as you are because he overshadowed your father at your very begetting.
That's why they call him "Witch-Father."
That's why we turn out as we do.
Initiation is a tribal rite, a coming-of-age. No one can make you a witch.
For witchdom is from the womb.
It begins, as they say, at the moment of conception.
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Tuesday, 05 April 2016
My, my, my. Let's hear it for the Wild Ride!
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Friday, 24 March 2017So I have this terrible knee-jerk reaction to blanket statements made about witches: don't tell me who I am. If not being born by this "witch-father" of yours makes me not a witch then fine. Give me another word to use.
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I asked my mother if she knew the circumstances around my conception. She paused a moment in thought and said that yes, she knew exactly when she conceived me. After she relayed the story, she looked me dead in the eye and exclaimed "Oh! OH! THAT explains so much about you!"
I agree.