Subject: Re: Miscellany
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1991-01-24, 10:52
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan24.023728.28439@athena.mit.edu> valerie@athena.mit.edu (why do you ask?) writes:
> >In article <1991Jan21.192325.23591@engin.umich.edu>, ewm@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ernst W Mayer) writes:
> >
> >As a practicing witch, I have a bit to say here on some of the 
> >speculation on the widow and Nicky...
 
     There are two ways to define "witch".
One way is to accept the self-definitions of people who have claimed
the word for themselves and who identify as 'witches".   
The other way is the common language way, a loose term used casually to
refer to many things. For instance, I called the widow a witch
because I think she is a person with powers that are out of the ordinary.
 

> >Please don't make such accusations unless you know what you're talking 
> >about.  Why do you think she's a Witch?  She hasn't done much unusual 
> >besides captivate a roomful of men with silly stories.  Spells are 
> >concentrations of mental enery that affect the self, not other people.
 

      I don't consider it an "accusation" since I have several 
friends who have powers that are considered unusual. The ability to
project thoughts and feelings that have an impact on others
is by far the most common of those abilities.
      I won't say too much about this because these messages are going
to the states where I understand fundamentalist christianity has taken
hold. And the bible does say "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".
 
> >
> >And as for Nicky, witches don't have the power to knock a car off a jack 
> >or kill their parents with magick (well, maybe with a carving knife or a 
> >gun... but not magick :).  Witches are real; remnants of _The Omen_ and 
> >_The Bad Seed_ are so far only documented as fiction.  Don't confuse 
> >Satanism et al with Wtichcraft.  Two totally different things.
 

      Well, maybe the people you call witches don't have such abilities
but I have some reason to believe that people exist who can effect the
material world with their conscious or unconscious thoughts.
Just as a for instance, the poltergeist phenomenon is quite well documented.
> >

There is more and in heaven and earth than is dreamed on of
in your philosophy!
 
a.h.