Found this hilarious...(warning -- gratuitous witch stereotypes ahead)
When most witches want revenge on someone that has wronged them, they usually conjure up a spell as they stir a special brew made of eyeballs and toad's feet. Or they curse them with a Satantic hex.
But Laurie Cabot (right), the 73 year-old "official witch" of Salem, prefers to threaten legal action instead.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
As Cabot prepares for her busiest season, the Wiccan New Year of Samhain that falls on Halloween, she is doing something she hasn't done in nearly two decades -- fight publicly for the civil rights of witches.
In between psychic readings and running a shop that sells everything a witch needs to get started, Cabot is mailing letters to civic leaders across Massachusetts warning them of the legal perils of portraying witches as grisly old hags.
Posters hung on government property of witches as haggard women on broomsticks or as green-faced outcasts with an evil glint in their eye could lead to defamation lawsuits by witches protesting what they see as violations of their civil rights.
"If they don't protect us and take care of us like everyone else, then they could be sued," said Cabot, who in 1986 founded the Witches League for Self-Awareness after the filming of "The Witches of Eastwick," a movie witches said made them look "stupid."
I guess ever since witchcraft became a "religion" these witches are concerned about their civil liberties being violated, but should witches be afraid of "not fitting in"? I would think they gave up that dream when they decided to become a WITCH. WITCHES have always been very polarizing individuals.
The difference between the historical and current persecution of witches is simple: The Salem Witch Trials were about accusing wrongly women who were NOT witches, and those women had a right to be upset. But being accused today because you ARE a witch?
That's like owning an SUV and catching flack from environmentalists.
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