Subject: Witches
From: burns@sparkle.uucp (John Burns)
Date: 1991-01-24, 04:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: burns@das.harvard.edu (John Burns)

In <1991Jan24.023728.28439@athena.mit.edu> valerie@athena.mit.edu writes:
> >As a practicing witch, I have a bit to say here on some of the 
> >speculation on the widow and Nicky...
> >
> >Please don't make such accusations unless you know what you're talking 
> >about.  [deletion]
> >
> >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.
> >
My dictionary defines "witch" as "one credited with usu. malignant
supernatural powers."  Since there's no such thing as magic, all witches by
the common definition are fictional.  If someone wants to practice a New
Age feminist religion and call it "witchcraft", that's OK by me.  But that's
not what most people mean by "witch", and I'm sick and tired of hearing
lectures on what "real witches" are like.  Anybody that doesn't have
supernatural powers isn't what I mean by a witch, and anybody that does is
invited to try to put a curse on me by way of proof (giving new meaning to
the word, "flame").

John A. Burns (burns@das.harvard.edu, burns@huche1.bitnet)
"How do you know she is a witch?"  "She looks like one!"