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...allowing his son's elementary school to celebrate Halloween with brooms, cauldrons and teachers dressed up as witches. The father, Robert Guyer, argued that using Halloween symbols violated the constitutionally-required separation of church and state. His reasoning: brooms, etc., are like symbols of Wicca, a variety of witchcraft and a religion whose adherents consider Halloween a religious holiday...
...steps for administering TT to a patient seem akin to witchcraft. As described by nurse Quinn, a leading advocate of the technique, they include "centering" within one's head, assessing which areas of the energy field feel "out of balance" with the rest of the field, clearing and mobilizing the energy field, and finally, "directing" energy to facilitate healing. Quinn admits, though, that "we don't have empirical data to demonstrate the existence of a personal energy field. It's a working hypothesis. In science, you're allowed to do that...
Although you titled the article "Beyond Witches & Ouijas," you didn't get beyond these topics yourselves. For starters, numerous references were made to classes on witchcraft, UFOs, etc., which are only two of the 15 courses offered by the committee. After a passing reference to the class on Mexican corridos (which, by the way, are ballads, not stories, as you stated), such as African oral traditions, Ice-landic sagas, Celtic heroes and folklore theory were basically ignored...
...local history that keeps the study of witchcraft alive at Harvard today, however...
Mitchell says that the history of witchcraft has also proven to be an attractive topic for the students interested in women's studies...