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To: Chuckmorse
“Azkaban,” “Circe,” “Draco,” “Erised,” “Hermes,” and “Slytherin.” These are Wicca names for devils and demons.

I did some internet searches looking for Wicca websites that say this. I didn't find anything. However, I did find a website that you seem to have plagarized from. Your original source?

204 posted on 11/02/2001 11:09:07 AM PST by Nataku X
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To: Nakatu X
Those names are half made up. Look at Slytherin. It is a group in Harry Potter's school, whose mascot is the snake (slithering... get it? DUH). Another example: Erised is the name of a mirror that mirror one's desires... Erised is Desire spelled backwords. GET IT?

Other names are from mythology or foreign languages (Draco = Latin for Dragon).

Sirius Lupin, for example, borrows his name from Sirius the "Dog Star".

You are simply plagarizing someone else's lies. Bad form.

212 posted on 11/02/2001 11:14:11 AM PST by Nataku X
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To: Nakatu X
Um, Hermes was the messanger of Zeus, and Circe told Odysseus how to get past the Hydra on the way to Hades. Draco is a constellation, named after a dragon in Greek myth.

I don't know who there others are, but I think maybe he makes a mountian out of a molehill. Should we expunge the Greek myths along with Harry Potter? Certianly Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are filled with tails of magic and derring do. Should we destroy them like the Talibs destroy images of the Bhudda?

229 posted on 11/02/2001 11:20:30 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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To: Nakatu X
I should have read more carefully. Apparenty G.K.Rowling is borrowing from Greek mythos, but he seems to associate these names as being Wicca.
238 posted on 11/02/2001 11:24:17 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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