I would like to thank you for your honest answers. Instead of just mocking and insulting people and not staying on the issues. It seems that is the thing that people who are Christians and taking a stand for Harry Potter seem to do. BTW I am a Christian also!
Thank you also for answering my questions. I do have a few more. Have you seen the symbol of Diana the crescent moon showing up more and more in England? Do witches in your covens sometimes make jewelry to sell to support the covens?
I am just curious about a girl that once came in my business if she was into Wicca or satanism. For two and a half years I had a business or should I say I was it's slave. It was a nightclub in Southern Ca. 220 person capacity, live bands, big headache I learned allot from my experiences. One night when I arrived one of my employees came up to me and told me that there was a girl burning black candles at the bar (but she had put them out by the time I had arrived) and she was going into the bathrooms and kissing the mirrors (mens and womens)leaving lipstick marks on them. Then she started burning a black candle again at the front bar. At that time I approached her and told her she was not allowed to burn candles at the bar. She looked up and in a creepy voice said "It's my birthday" I told her I didn't care it was a fire hazard and she was not allowed to burn candles at the bar. (I doubt it was really her birthday). I admit that I might have ticked her off because when the band went on break my DJ played Cleansed by Fire by Cooper and dedicated it to her. The next day she came back briefly and she left a part of an apple. In your opinion what was that all about? Was she into Wicca or satan?
MCD
Have you seen the symbol of Diana the crescent moon showing up more and more in England?
Not noticably, but then again I haven't really been looking. I presume you mean in general? It's always been there at Pagan/Wiccan things I've been to.
Do witches in your covens sometimes make jewelry to sell to support the covens?
Genrally in England, there's no need to 'support a coven'. Wiccans individually may make/sell jewellery for their own benefit, I suppose, but in no sense does a Coven involve anything that requires financial support from its members. We all bring wine/food along to an esbat or sabbat but that's about it! A Coven is not like a commune where resources are pooled, it's principally a group of like-minded friends meeting together on the old 'bring-a-bottle' basis.
Was she into Wicca or satan?
I have no idea. Perhaps neither? I can say with certainly the things you described her doing are nothing I've ever experienced in Wicca and I know nothing of Satanism. Perhaps she was simply a Goth chick being spooky for effect and attention... some of them do that, you know.
Just a little more on this: these 2 programmes, along with 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (thanks, Willow!) have proved a major headache for Wiccans, at least over here in England, as we've been swamped by interest from women, particularly in the 18-30 age group.
I know this might not sound much of a problem, especially if you're a man ;-), but since Wicca operates in small groups and relies on a fairly even mix of sexes, it's a bit awkward. For example, 10 years ago, a talk on Wicca I attended was almost exactly 1:1 male:female, but at a course I helped run last year (and it was only as an 'interest' course, not recruitment), of 25 participants, 21 were female.
A further problem is that Wicca isn't really intended to be a 'mass appeal' religion, since we don't have a 'congregation' and we all take part in rituals: we can't do this with large groups, so where do we put people? Quite honestly I'd be very happy to see these programmes disappear off our screens altogether so we can have some peace and quiet!!