We always learned as kids that Halloween was like Christmas for Witches, so why is it that Wiccans now resentfully find themselves begrudgingly passing out candy from their doorsteps in suburbia just as if they were their church going neighbors?
This was answered in a post 45 year old Trey Capnerhurst wrote on the popular pagan site WitchVox.com. Where Capnerhurst stated, that she was not a mythical creature like a were-wolf or Frankenstein and does not have green skin and warts. It's especially disappointing to find out from a witch that were wolves are not real, but does this mean wiccans see Halloween in the same light American Indians find Thanksgiving? After all most schools Thanksgiving decorations don't depict diseased blankets as they wept their way back the trail of tears.
There are plenty of pagan followers who like that fact that the rest of the world is catching up to them and their old ways are given a day where they are front and center.But Capnerhurst,
Who opened her own church called Disir, the Norse term for matron deity, sees it no different from black face to dress up as a stereotypical witch, unless you are one. She claims to have been born into the old religion and say people who choose the path for themselves are, Wiccans . However Wicca is actually a religion started in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, an occultist who took most of what he knew from grand father of western majick Aleister Crowley. Though the Crowley tie most modern practitioners are either ignorant of or try to downplay, since the myth of Crowley depicts him as the world's wickedest man, that goes against Wiccan more peace , love and harm no one hippie like ways.
In 2008 it was estimated that 324,000 Wiccans practiced in the United States which was an increase from the previous count in 2001 and that number would be at least doubled if no tripled in Europe which has traditionally been more accepting of paganism since it is in fact the birthplace of it. 3/4s of the Wiccans in America are female.
Most Wiccans celebrate Samhain, a Celtic festival that celebrates the harvest and the coming darkness of the winter. Capnerhurst has found the best way for her to overcome her resentment of the holiday, is by placing a sign on her lawn that says, "This House Practices Safe Hex."
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