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Politics : Did the Great Experiment Fail?

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To: average joe who wrote (763)	1/10/2014 6:18:56 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 926

>>We now understand that accused witches were often the innocent victims of political motives or jealous neighbors. However, there is strong evidence that at least some of the accused were people carrying on traditions of healing, herbalism, and possibly shamanic practices from the pre-Christian era. Communing with the spirits of the land and ancestors is a practice almost universal in indigenous world cultures. Fairies and other nature spirits were a remnant from a distant past – a past that threatened the new Protestant world view. Protestant reformers were absolutely correct in their assessment that Catholicism had allowed elements of paganism to continue. And from a folklorist’s perspective,thank goodness it did! A puritanical world devoid of imagination, stories of fairies, elves,and brownies seems like a very grim world,indeed. Excerpt from "When Witches Communed with Fairies" by Carolyn Emerick academia.edu

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