... at least stop using the word
I was watching one of my favourite shows on the telly Thursday evening and was shocked, for some reason, when I heard the phrase ‘witch-hunt’ [there’s no smiley for my reaction]
I was shocked because I thought it was being used less these days; maybe it was an old show; maybe it was just harder to ignore on the day of the new Moon in Aries [happy new year!]
the original witch-hunts were a process of making false accusations against a large number of people and, usually, torturing or executing them; there were trials sometimes, but no one was acquitted, not even Joan, who ‘saved’ France
a significant proportion of those burned at the stake were spinster or widowed women who ‘owned’ land, which was then appropriated by The Church; smaller communities of victims included subversives and ‘sorceresses’; recent research indicates many victims were young women executed because of the way they reacted to moldy food, especially anything made with rye flour
the witch-hunt label is used mostly today to describe the process of searching out and harassing dissenters, a far cry from the original meaning; and accusing a dissenter of dissenting is hardly a false accusation ~ fascist, perhaps, but not false
I’m sure the people who still use the phrase don’t understand how it makes Witches feel; those same people probably think that Jews over-react about their holocaust and that there were no AmerIndian, Romani, Slavic, homosexual, Freemason, African, Soviet, Rawandan, Serbian, or any other holocausts [sorry, know I missed some]
I have no delusion that we can stop this, but that’s no excuse for not fighting the ignorance in today's world
as Dylan wrote, you gotta stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything
do what you can
more next time
Blessed Be
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