Yeah, no... I'm a practicing pagan and I found this film quite enjoyable. Then again, I can separate entertainment from reality, take joy in cheesy, trashy B-movies and don't get easily offended over every little thing celluloid has to offer.
"My easy-going nature is gettin' sorely *beep* tested!"
Yeah...well then I am a Norse god and I am offended because of the Avengers. I am also a Blackula...and Blade makes me angry. I used to be a dark wizard without a nose, but I had already converted before Harry Potter came out, so that didn't bother me quite as much. A witch...hahahaha. A unicorn would be better.
shareGood one.
(You know I was joking, right?)
As a witch, could you tell me how you feel about these other witch-y flicks Buffy, Charmed, Sabrina, The Craft, Coven, East End, Eastwick lol
shareAint Buffy about Vampire Slayers?
shareHer best friend is a witch and she steals the scene a lot.
shareThis thread proves that the Christians who cry wolf about persecution, whenever someone removes a cross or similar symbol from a US municipal building, aren't the only religion who can claim this. This thread can be used to deflate those Christians' arguments and I'm thankful this thread exists.
shareyou forgot to add Breastwick and Breastwick2
shareI am Wiccan and I'm not offended (though I am a wee depressed) by the film, it is too far-fetched and unrelated to anything or anyone remotely involved in real witchcraft. The only thing I lament is the growing trend recently (The Conjuring is a good example; enjoyable movie as far as performances and setting/direction and good acting, but the baddie is a "witch" and it is treated as going-without-saying that the Salem witch trials attacked real witches who were devil worshippers, which is not what a witch is or what those women went through). Anyway, I am tired of seeing a recent trend in witches being treated as the devil-worshipping, Judeo-Christian God-fearing/hating, pointy hat wearing child-eaters of the Inquisitions wet dreams. Real witches and Wiccans and witchcraft have nothing to do with heaven or hell or the Judeo-Christian deities (I use the plural for a reason). I dislike the trend of, in the name of entertainment, kids and people in general, are being raised to glom onto the older, inaccurate, and brutal definition of witch. Every person we meet that knows witches only as this type (or from The Conjuring-type) hear us say "Yes, I am a witch/Wiccan" and look at us askance like we're about to rip off our clothes and dance naked for Satan.
No, I don't want entertainment edited, but I do miss the days of Buffy and such where Wicca was portrayed as WAY more fantastical and a bit "out there" than it really is, but at least the core tenets and ethics were intact and accurate and people were getting educated ("Yes, like Willow but no, not the magic crap...just the wisdom and ethics side of things").
These sorts of things are why I wish there were the funds and talent to turn Terry Pratchett's novels into movie series or tv series, but done thoroughly and well*. He clearly knows real life Wiccans. No one can read his "witches" Discworld novels and come away thinking he doesn't know the ethics of real witchcraft. Plus he is so smart and funny. Too smart, too funny and too much complicated character development for movie makers to try tackling it.
C'est la vie!
* yes, I know (and have seen) the few series that have been done of some of his books and they aren't poorly done but changes are always made, things always left out and in the case of Going Postal, they took a great feminist character and utterly gutted her, turned her into a Grade A Damsel. So yes, I still wish someone could make his books into projects that reflect the books characters with integrity.
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
You don't know your history. There were no wiccans as the religion you know before the 20th century. There was however the words "wikka" and later "witch"; They came about around a 1000 years ago. Those words described a being that, well fits the descriptions of what we visualize on Halloween and that we saw on The wizard of oz. An old hag with a pointy hat that eats children and rides on a broom and may be in league with satan. It could also describe one that communicates with the dead or creates potions. There was no group or religions that worshipped dianna or pan or the ancient deity's. There were no "wiccans" as you know them. For sure there were no wiccans in early America that were persecuted because of their religion - It hadn't been invented yet! They didn't come about until you guys hi-jacked the name wiccan in the 20th century. Then all of you became professional victims and claimed you were and are being victimized by these nasty portrayals. One of your respected elder wiccan,Jenny Gibbons, has come to agree with what I stated here after she did extensive historic research.
shareWho gives a crap? It's a horror movie!! It's not a social drama! How old are you?
shareDo you possess any supernatural power?
shareAs am I but I wasn't offended in fact i showed my family simply to tell them that there are different kinds of witches in the world and being a witch does not mean being evil. I suggest taking it with a grain of salt
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