The Truth About Witches Part 1

I am not a Wiccan anymore but I seriously get fed up with narrow-minded fools (usually Christians or other religious zealots) who consider Witchcraft 'evil', 'perversive', and 'demonic'.

First of all, Wiccans do not believe in the Devil.  Only Christians (especially), Jews, and Muslims do.  I currently reading a fantastically unbelievable book about a supposed demonic possession, The Day Satan Called by Bill Scott (no relation to Jill).

Typical of Christians, Mr. Scott refers throughout the book to witches and covens and Satanism.  Oh, he does admit that since his experience with the allegedly possessed person, he has learned that there are witches and covens that do not worship Satan but nature.  But the stereotypes persist.

The only people on earth one could confess to worshiping the Devil are Christians.  They spend so much time and effort and though on demons and their master Satan, that I often wonder when they find the time to expend on anything else.

Wiccans are not devil worshipers.  They are not perverts.  They are not freaks.  Wiccans worship nature and the Feminine - and this aspect of Wicca is the main reason they are so prosecuted.  Worshiping a female deity?  WTF...?!?

I will delve into this more fully in Part 2.

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The Myrtles Plantation

Is the Myrtles Plantation really haunted?  There is no scientific evidence to support ghosts and hauntings and all, and with the Myrtles, it is the hearsay of those who claim to have experienced the Myrtles spirits.  

Are these people experiencing so-called haunts because that is what they expect?  I watched an episode of Ghost Lab where those big, burly guys were just about freaking out because they supposedly were being touched, catching EVPs, and seeing or feeling things watching them that were not there.

When you expect something to be a certain way, it generally turns out to be like that.  There is a widespread, long-believed-to-be-Gospel that the French are rude.  Well, I have never had that experience in all my time spent in France (and I have visited the country four times since 1999).  I would have to state that the Spanish and the Italians are far ruder than the French.  My experience has been that the most gracious and polite of the Europeans I've encountered are the Germans, the Austrians, and to a slightly lesser extent, the British.  If you go to France expecting the French to be rude, you're going to have a noticeable attitude about you and the French people you deal with will notice this and react accordingly.  

Back to the Myrtles...

Okay, so people claim to have taken photos of ghosts there.  I have shot photos of dozens of places that could be haunted: Notre Dame (exterior & interior) , Hohensalzburg Castle that overlooks the quaint town of Salzburg, Versailles Palace, Schloss Neuschwanstein, the Bone Chapel at Kutna Hora (as well as the adjacent cemetery), Old Salem here in Winston Salem...and not one ghost has shown up in any of my hundreds of photos!  (And Old Salem is reputed to be haunted.  There is even a local historian who does a Ghost Walk of the area!)

I don't believe that the Myrtles is haunted.  I don't believe that people come back.  Once you're dead, you're dead.  I dare anyone who truly believes that this place is haunted to pay my expenses to spend a weekend in the old plantation.  If I experience anything supernatural, I will rewrite this blog post and apologize to all who have gone through a paranormal experience there.