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.
What Do You Say When a Witch Dies?
What do you say when a witch dies?
Well, witchhood is a kind of tribal affiliation.
Those who have no tribe often find it difficult to understand the depth of the sense of belonging that comes with tribal identity. Those that do, know that, naturally, when you die, you don't want to come back just anywhere; you want to come back to your people, to those that you love.
Uncle Gerald got it absolutely right when he says in Witchcraft Today (140) that our hope beyond death is for rebirth among our own.
Once a witch, always a witch, they say. Not even death takes that away.
So when a witch dies, you reaffirm that hope.
Reborn to the People, you say.
With thanks to AMF, TF, and MG
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Tuesday, 19 March 2019
I'll note with amusement that in the WT passage cited above, the witches tell Gardner that to be reborn among one's own is a reward for good and faithful enactment of the rites--orthopraxy, right?--but that if you do wrong, your punishment is to be reborn among cowans.
Gotta love that.
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Monday, 25 March 2019I think it's true. I have many times in this life met people who became important future coven-mates and just KNEW they were important to me. You were one of them dearest Steve.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019Well now it's odd. Today at work an idea popped into my head of a group of witches at a funeral all dressed up in black robes and pointy hats singing "We'll meet Again" as the coffin is lowered into the ground.
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From what I've read in books on past life regression we do have a tendency to reincarnate in groups. Apparently a lot of Americans had past lives during the Albigensian crusade. So the bonds of kith and kin extend across time.