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.
The Kingdom of the Witches
John Alden Jr: What do they want, these terrible witches?
Cotton Mather: The same thing we all want: a country of their own.
(WGH's Salem, 2012)
[There] were so many of them [the witches] that they thought that, if they were able to remain at large for just one more year, they might have raised up a king from among them.
Hans Fründ, Report on Witchcraft in Valais (1475)
What is the Third Kingdom of the Witches?
Easily told.
Kingdom the First: the Celtic Dobunni of the Cotswolds and Severn basin, circa 100 b.c.e.
Kingdom the Second: the Anglo-Saxon Hwicce, their heirs both cultural and genetic.
Kingdom the Third: the eponymous Witches, their latter-day children, now in worldwide diaspora.
What is the Third Kingdom of the Witches?
Easily told.
Us: the Younger Witchery.
Though known to lovers of the Old Tongue as the Third Rich (< Old English ríce [REACH-eh], “kingdom, realm”), the concept of the Third Kingdom has nothing whatsoever to do with either Nazis or Nazi ideology. How could it?
We Latter-Day Hwicce are a mixed and mongrel lot, just as the ancestors were.
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