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- From: lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Nomenclature./Men are Not witches!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:49 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1992Dec22.211732.7987@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
- >sirbyte@brewich.hou.tx.us (William hancock) writes:
- >: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >: > : The correct terminology for a man who endeavors to engage in magical
- >: > : practices is "Warlock". The more gender nuetral term would be
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- Actually this isn't true. (I know, I know, .... flame away)
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- I don't remember the word that it comes from, but the original latin that
- the word "Warlock" comes from means "betrayer". A warlock is someone in
- the occult that betrayes his/her own.
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- The reason I know this is because one of my teachers was accused of being
- a warlock. It was a vast misunderstanding, but then again emotions were
- running high.
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- BB,
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- Tammy the flamebait
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