Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM by Chadwick Hansen. 252 pages. Braziller...
...death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result of a repressive fanaticism in the Puritan character. Underlying this modern attitude toward the Salem trials is a smug belief that since we do not now believe in the power of witchcraft, the existence of witchcraft is a delusion, as impossible and unscientific, say, as the Ptolemaic notion that the sun revolved around the earth...
...craft is in definite financial need. Witches do not use psychedelic drugs ("along with pot and fascination"), and the "free colleges for dropouts" have the fat, rich and bored bourgeoisie for the largest part of their student body. My class was not "a how-to course in witchcraft"-there is no such thing, there never can be. There is no such program as "how to be a witch in ten easy lessons." Witchcraft is not folderol-it is the first religion known to man, a very ancient pagan religion antedating Christianity by thousands of years...
Because articles such as yours plant seeds of doubt, suspicion, and misunderstanding, witchcraft must remain hidden underground for years to come, just as it has been occulted for centuries...
...course in witchcraft, though, is offered by San Francisco's Heliotrope Free University. At a recent lecture in the seamy Fillmore district of the city, the door was opened by the presiding witch?young and tall, with flowing golden hair. "I'm Witch Antaras Auriel," said the white-gowned figure softly. This barefoot witch clearly has magic, especially considering that Antaras Auriel is a boy, born Dennis Boiling, 19 years ago in San Jose...