Posted on 04/14/2024 12:33:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“There is no such thing as a witch..”
What about Hillary’s suicide hot line ?
I lived near the Navajo Reservation years ago and there are many who still believe in witches and skinwalkers.
Same for the Cherokee area of Oklahoma. I knew a white woman who believed she was affected by Cherokee witchcraft 20 years ago.
“It is not easy to draw a clear distinction between magic and witchcraft. Both are concerned with the producing of effects beyond the natural powers of man by agencies other than the Divine (cf. OCCULT ART, OCCULTISM). But in witchcraft, as commonly understood, there is involved the idea of a diabolical pact or at least an appeal to the intervention of the spirits of evil. In such cases this supernatural aid is usually invoked either to compass the death of some obnoxious person, or to awaken the passion of love in those who are the objects of desire, or to call up the dead, or to bring calamity or impotence upon enemies, rivals, and fancied oppressors. This is not an exhaustive enumeration, but these represent some of the principal purposes that witchcraft has been made to serve at nearly all periods of the world’s history.”
Really, missionary lady? The Bible would beg to differ:
They use the OT verse where it states not to suffer a witch to live; it does not say kill them. If you don’t house, feed, cloth them that’s part of living. Those witch killing people never read further where it says to show them to the end of town and send them out (or words to that effect).
Haven’t read Bill O’Reilly’s book about witches yet.
Today things are different.
Witches go to Congress and join the Squad. Or live in Chappaqua with a net worth of an estimated $120 million. Enough to pay for Endurance, Ox or Car Shield for her brooms.
If she weighed the same as a duck then she would also weigh the same as wood; therefore she would have been a witch!
Sure there are witches, but they’re mostly into politics these days.
What a brave and godly woman. God bless her memory.
Only the ignorant believe in witches.
Did you know that if you drag an old leather boot that has been burned and is still smoking around the house three times it will keep all snakes away from your house for the summer? Right now, right here there is a big run on old boots around here.
Now this one is a fact. Hang up a stuffed brown paper bag and it will keep the wasps out and dirt dobbers away. They think it is the nest of their mortal enemy the hornet.
Paper bag stuffed with what ... anything in particular?
Good lord. LOL That’s great stuff.
Just something to make it look like a hornet’s nest.
PS, it does work in most areas depending on how much area you are trying to protect. I have one hung in a camper shell that is suspended from the barn ceiling and there is not a single dirt dobber or wasp nest in it. I convinced someone to put them up in the rafters of his airplane hanger, no wasps anywhere.
I don’t do the boot thing. There is a medicine man that lives in the NW part of the county that a lot of people around here go to.
Two of the best old books on the subject are THE GOLDEN BOUGH by Frasier and THE EVIL EYE by Elsworthy.
Then there is the horse hair rope to keep snakes away from your camp on the ground...
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