Witch School now in Salem, MA Wtich City
Witches at Witch School are preparing their brooms for a long flight because the school is on the move. The mostly virtual school has been operating from Roseville, Illinois, for the past several years, but apparently it’s not the most witch-friendly town in the USA.
According to Ed Hubbard, the co-founder and CEO of Witch School, they’ve been relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group. It’s such a shame, because Illinois is certainly a large enough community to support all faiths. The protestors actually sprinkled the wheels of their own cars with holy water, then drove around town. We can only speculate as to why, but for witches all water is holy water. It’s not like holy water makes witches melt away. That’s a Hollywood myth.
Lewis said he’s sad to be leaving the Vermilion County area, where his grandmother practiced the Corellian tradition. “What people didn’t realize was, witches were already living there. When I was growing up, it was something you just didn’t talk about. It’s unfortunate that people have to be that afraid.”
Hubbard told NBC news, "The churches can scream and yell, but I thought at the end of the day if you proved yourself a good neighbor, people would get past that. I learned that's not true."
So, Ed Hubbard and his coven of witches are packing up their spell books, potions, incantations and heading east to Salem, MA. Witch School has a student population of over 40,000 who won’t be too effected by the change in venue.
However, it’s not like Salem needed yet another coven of witches. Salem is a cottage industry for witches, but Witch School leadership felt it was important to live and thrive in a witch friendly community.
Witch School brings a lot of great witchy videos to Youtube.com in order to share as much educational witchcraft information with the public as possible. A couple of years ago Rev. Donald Lewis, chancellor of the Corellian Nativist Tradition that his grandmother established there in Illinois, interviewed Z Budapest and they did a nice job of it.
Virginia Powell, a Wiccan High Priestess in the Corellian tradition and former employee of the Witch School’s brick and mortar store, said, she’s studied Wicca “…my whole life for a long time, only my closest friends knew. There’s nothing Satanic about it; we don’t sacrifice animals or go after the kids.” Powell has chosen to remain behind and now searches for a new job in a difficult economy.
Witch School (www.WitchSchool.com) has already established itself in its new Salem digs, and is planning a Witches in Global Action Conference for April 17-19, 2009, at the Hawthorn Hotel in Salem, MA. The conference features both Lewis and Hubbard, but also Salem’s local witch Christian Day. Angie Buchanan, member of the Executive Council of the Parliament for World’s Religions, is also a featured speaker.
And while we’re at it, we also have an online school for Dianic witches called the Dianic Wicca University for women. http://wicca.dianic-wicca.com
Comments
May their move be blessed and their troubles lightened. It is sad that in America religious tolerance does not yet exist for all. May the Goddess hasten that days arrival and warm the hearts of those who have only the cold for their fellow humans.
May the Goddess take my fat cock in her mouth and swallow every ..last...drop
Wiccans are not Witches. Traditional Witchcraft is entirely different. Anyone who would be upset with either of these groups is ill informed. What the church taught was out of ignorance. The phrase "thou shalt not suffer a witch, etc is a deliberate mistranslation. It is poisoner and not witch. The Celts weren't even around at the time it was written and they were having a lot of poisonings at that time. They don't have anything to do with Satan. They don't believe in that entity and those who did were Christians called Cunning folk and were not evil either. In this day and age I cannot believe there are so many uninformed individuals. Even the Jews don't believe in an evil Satan (HaSatan). Look it all up folks. Wiccans have strong ethical values.
How about the name of the christian group so we can harass the living hell out of them too?
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