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- Subject: Re: Nomenclature./Men are Not witches!
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:39:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.212725.23970@athena.cs.uga.edu> tedr@athena.cs.uga.edu (Ted Kalivoda) writes:
- >In article <BzF972.Dtv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe) writes:
- >>
- >>I am a Witch, that is, I am a magic-worker. Whether anyone before Gerald
- >>Gardner ever used the word Witch for religious purposes, I do not know, and
- >>it really doesn't matter to me. Wicca is my religion, and one of the most
- >>fundamental principles of Wicca is that magic is available to everyone. To
- >>call myself anything but Witch would make me feel that I was hiding from the
- >>power implicit in the word Witch.
- >>
- >>Please note, there are pagans who work magic who are not Witches, but they are
- >>in different strands of paganism than I am.
- >
- >Okay, let's clear the air on this one. Since when were men called witches?
- >The correct terminology for a man who endeavors to engage in magical
- >practices is "Warlock". The more gender nuetral term would be
- >"Necromancer". If I practiced magic, I surely wouldn't want to be called a
- >witch.
- >
- Sorry! Wrong answer! If you're going to stick your nose in, at least read
- a little (other than supermarket newspapers & your local televangelists),
- please.
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- Witch is a non-gender term (try looking up the origin of the word). Warlock
- translates as "oathbreaker", from one of the Norse languages. Necromancer
- is one who practices magic that deals with the dead (necro). Sorry, guy.
- Do you need a faq? (Btw, for anyone else, (like those working on the FAQ,
- hint, hint) I have a copy of the one Eric posted a few months ago (on his own)).
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- mark
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