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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Nomenclature./Men are Not witches!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.172303.0200548@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <lj4j9vINNoou@news.bbn.com> <105491@bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:23:03 GMT
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- In article <105491@bu.edu> mcelroy@bu.edu (Carl Mackin) writes:
- >Dawn Hardin (dhardin@bbn.com) wrote:
- >: In article <1992Dec18.212725.23970@athena.cs.uga.edu>, tedr@athena.cs.uga.edu (Ted Kalivoda) writes:
- >: >
- >: > Okay, let's clear the air on this one. Since when were men called witches?
- >:
- >: Since they stopped watching "Bewitched."
- >:
- >: > 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.
- >:
- >: If Bran wants to be called a witch, that's his business. I don't think
- >: you'll find very many sources in modern paganism outside of comic books
- >: using the word "warlock." But hey, if that's what you want to be called,
- >: go for broke.
- >:
- >: Dawn
- >:
- >: Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
- >: "Folk Song" by Bongwater
- >
- >
- >Thank you Dawn. I agree with you 100%. One should be called what one wants.
- >Be it Wiccian, Witch, Warlock, Sorcerer, Scorceress, Necromancer...
- >
- >May the Lord and Lady Bless you and keep you safe in this most joyous time.
- >
- >--Mac
- >
- >mcelroy@acs.bu.edu
- And of course, Warlock may well be the proper term for some of us. I for
- example was babtized (after one of those Billy Grahm [cracker] crusades),
- am a slowly become a practicing pagan and witch. Warlock fits Uncle Wolf
- to a "T", except that I feel that Christianity has Betrayed Me rather than
- the reverse.
-
- --Lowell Morrison
- --Uncle Wolf
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