There’s an Actual Pagan Academy in NYC Training Adults to Become Real-Life Witches

The Blaze ^ | Jun. 17, 2013 10:51am | Billy Hallowell

[Olog-hai]

Those who dislike or are relatively unfamiliar with the occult will likely be surprised to learn that a witchcraft school—like an adult version of Hogwarts—is in full operation in the center of New York City. The Wiccan Family Temple Academy of Pagan Studies, while certainly different from the fictional school that Harry Potter and his friends attended, does provide some intriguing elements that will serve as a surprise to those with little familiarity with Pagan beliefs and witchcraft.

The academy, according to information on its web site, offers affordable training, which includes coverage in the “Path of Wicca,” Starlight Vision Series, Herbal Intensive Series, tarot and pendulum use and many other elements important to the practice of Wicca. The educational facility claims to be the first of its kind in New York City. …

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As loathsome as I find this, There is that pesky 1st Amendment thingy to which I passionately subscribe. Although I can’t imagine a Wiccan dying on the battlefield to defend my right to be a Christian, There are PLENTY of Christians who would die on the Battlefield for THEM to practice their “faith”.

(First, they came for the Wiccans....)

[Olog-hai]

I heard of that place (mostly because a friend of my sister was one of its denizens) but not to the effect that it was an “academy” of any sort.

[ThomasMore]

To each his/her own; as long as they don’t force my grandkids into it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You would think people would outgrow that silliness by the time they became adults.

[alchemist54]

You are very WRONG many wiccans have fought and died in the military-the VA just recently(a few years ago) approved the pentagram as a religious symbol for headstones. Check out the facts paganism has been around since the dawn of man. The term pagan is Latin for common or country folk.