Wicca and Historical "Witches"

There has probably existed, for thousands of years, people who followed the ancient Way of the Goddess, Wicca, which worships God as Goddess, and often, through nature. These worship-ceremonies emphasize flowers, moonlight, nature, etc.

But the "witches" whom the Church burned at the stake are fictional. The true Wiccans never worshipped the devil; indeed, they do not even believe in a devil. This was a Christian invention and fiction. The real reason that the Church-leaders wanted to murder these innocent women had nothing to do with religion. They wanted to get their land and other possessions. One way to do this was by the public accusation of "witchcraft." This would almost guarantee that even an innocent woman would be locked up and tortured, losing all her property.

The tortures of the witch-trials were ghastly. In fact, they are so horrible that I will spare you their description. For, like me, if you heard what the "Christians" actually did to these women, you might not be able to shake the nightmare from your mind. That is how horrible these tortures were.

Greed, as always, is the seed of much hideous and monstrous behavior. So some of the "Christians" were also severely perverted, and turned on by torture of young, often beautiful, women. This was just plain sick,and it added to the sickness of greed.

The "trials" were absurd and ridiculous. They were not anything like those of a true legal system. During the trials, women were stuck with pins, and if they responded, were called "witches," for, if they had not been demonic, God would have protected them. They were also dunked in water and held under; if they drowned, it was "confirmation" that they were "witches"; if not, God would have saved them.

This criminal perversion was very widespread. Christians were victims of heinous superstitions. And the worship of the god Yahweh-Jehovah permitted such barbaric cruelty that the mind boggles at the tortures devised.

Wiccans today are making a come-back, from the ancient forms, as a form of nature-worship. Early Christians taught that God manifested as "Goddess," in nature. they called their Goddess "Sophia" (Greek for "wisdom"). Wicca is a very rare form of religion, as it elevates women above men. The Wiccans meet in groups of thirteen, each called a "coven." Each is led by a priestess. They try to gather and send psychic energy, for healing of a friend, or for success in an enterprise, etc. But they have nothing to do with satanism, the worship of the ultimate illusion, fear or the "devil."

Most of what these Christians said, from about 1450-1650, can be dismissed as overactive imagination. Some might have been even victims of a naturally occurring form of lsd, which grew in a fungus in their bread. (This is known as "ergot poisoning.") At any rate, nothing that they said can be taken seriously, and none of their charges against "witches" had anything to do with reality.