Nobody likes a curse or a hex - particularly when what they're doing is bad for the image of Witches, Wiccans and any Pagan. Without wanting to be too critical - and it's hard not to be - it's interesting to see a very raw, localised practice here. I can't support the use of excrement and in particular dead dogs. Please, if this is the first time you've read about Witchcraft in the press - it does not represent the majority of practitioners.
The Guardian - 6th of January, 2011
Double, double toil and trouble: witches in Romania are planning to cast a spell on the country's rulers because of laws that will force them to pay tax for the first time.
Cat excrement and dead dogs, rather than eye of newt and toe of frog, will go into their cauldron – but they are hoping to put a Macbeth-style hex on the country's president, Traian Basescu, and his government after the imposition of a tax regime aimed at tackling the recession.
Witches will gather on Romania's southern plains and the banks of the Danube to protest against the laws and cast spells on the politicians who implemented them.
A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the river "so evil will befall them", a witch named Alisia said.
The threatened curse is not being taken lightly in a country with a long tradition of superstition. Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days in an attempt to ward off evil.
The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers to register their professions and become liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.
The Queen witch Bratara Buzea said she would lead a chorus in casting a spell using a concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog. "They want to take the country out of this crisis using us? They should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it," she said.
From The Guardian
3 comments:
Well there goes the whole rules to Be Silent. LOL
Maybe they think people knowing will induce fear to feed the curse?
Maybe it will have that effect - or the curse could just be the smell of cat excrement and dead dog! I can't stand the use of animals - feathers, sure, but poo and dead things?!
I don't mind the use of animal parts, as long as you aren't killing the animal specifically for the working (ie: people who slaughter their own animals for food and use part of the animal that normally get tossed away for the ritual) or if it died of natural causes and you salvaged the body.
And as far as cursing goes... Vomit. Urine. Excrement. The more disgusting the better. It's dirty, gross work. But cursing isn't exactly mean to be nice, now is it?
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