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An edited excerpt from the 1998 documentary “Witch City” featuring Laurie Cabot – the “Official Witch of Salem.” Historian Stephen Nisenbaum and Rev. Russ Ely dispute links between the practice of witchcraft today and the victims of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.

He has a point, though. What happened in Salem – indeed, what happened in every witchcraft incident during pre-modern times – has no meaningful connection, on any level, to Wicca. Wicca is a thoroughly modern invention, and a pagan like Laurie Cabot trying to claim victim status over the Salem trials makes no sense.

LOL… The witchcraft she has adopted is only 20 years older than Kwanza.

But, I wonder what doctrine of her religion demands that she dress like a batshit crazy old cat lady

I believe it’s the “look at me! Somebody! LOOK AT MEEEeeeee!” doctrine.

But, But, But…. look at the wacky robes and hats in the Vatican, the squiggly sideburns and bowler hats of the Hasidic, and the beards and turbans of the Sikhs.

Modern “pagan” types are pretty insufferable. They moan about Abrahamic religions and all the awful things they’ve done to the world, then replace it with an equally ludicrous religion that forces itself into everyone’s faces in a way that comes off so forced and embarrassing.

And also, just like mainstream monotheists, they usually haven’t a clue about the history of the doctrines, deities, and symbols that they are liberally borrowing from all throughout history and culture.

What’s especially funny is that they’ve borrowed so many of the trappings of so-called “witchcraft” right out of the lore of Christianity.

It would be like a black person saying they’re deeply into “black culture” by dressing up and acting like racist caricatures from the films and advertising of the 1920s and 30s.Show less

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