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I have resentley relized that the Britain flag looks exactly like the Witch symbol, and I wanted others insight on why it looks like that. Also, I may be wrong but I think Britain flag was created after the Salem Witch Trials. Here are some photo's for referance;
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The above image is from Here, scroll to bottom of that webpage.
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Any insight would be helpful....

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Looks like a coincidence, but I've never seen that "witch" symbol before, at least in a historical context. Do you have a source for where it originated?

The wiki for the UK flag

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland uses as its national flag the royal banner known as the Union Flag or, popularly, Union Jack.[1] The current design of the Union Flag dates from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801. It consists of the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England), edged in white, superimposed on the Cross of St Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which are superimposed on the Saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). Wales, however, is not represented in the Union Flag by Wales' patron saint, Saint David as at the time the flag was designed Wales was part of the Kingdom of England."

The Salem witch trials were in 1692, and those trials weren't even over witches; it was mass hysteria and purely political. Also, people were greedy and wanted each others' land. The current design is from 1801, wayyy after the trials. Also, the mass hysteria took place in Massachusetts, so why would England adopt a design based on something that happened over 100 years earlier?

Would love the source for that witch symbol, though, from anyone.

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Lupe he's referring to the Blair Witch symbol. From that poorly made movie.

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At least that's the closest thing I can think of. It looks some what similar to it. Symbol.

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There is no one unifying symbol for witches. And aside from the popular but overrated movie Blair Witch Project, I have never seen that symbol before.

Also, that is a very common and easy to draw geometric shape. Crossed horizontal and vertical lines on top of crossed diagonal lines inside a square or rectangle. I think just about ever kid from every westernized nation in the world has doodled that in the margins of their notebook paper at lest once.

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I've never encountered that symbol in any of my studies, OP would you mind telling us your source on that image?

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I knew I saw it somewhere (I just knew it wasn't a book on witchcraft of any sort).

Blair Witch; a completely fabricated found footage movie.

I got the "Witch Symbol" from this page; Scroll to bottom of page please.
I did NOT get this symbol from a movie, I've actually never seen or heard of Blair Witch. Also I call it a "Witch Symbol" because it was refered to as a "Whitch Sign" in the website above.
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THIS IS INCORRECT!

They symbol that the website you have linked above is calling a "hexagram" and saying that it comes from India is actually a magein david, more commonly know as a "Star of David". The top triangle strives upward, toward God, while the lower triangle strives downward, toward the Earth, the fact that the triangles are intertwining is meant to represent God's connect to man and vice versa.

I don't know where your website got its info from, but if its wrong about one symbol, who's to say that its not wrong about other symbols on its list, or maybe even all of them! Maybe you didn't get the symbol from a movie, but this site very well may have.
click on this link. it goes to wikipedia. then click on origins and shape...
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THIS IS INCORRECT!

They symbol that the website you have linked above is calling a "hexagram" and saying that it comes from India is actually a magein david, more commonly know as a "Star of David". The top triangle strives upward, toward God, while the lower triangle strives downward, toward the Earth, the fact that the triangles are intertwining is meant to represent God's connect to man and vice versa.

I don't know where your website got its info from, but if its wrong about one symbol, who's to say that its not wrong about other symbols on its list, or maybe even all of them! Maybe you didn't get the symbol from a movie, but this site very well may have.

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ur right!
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XD Yea, I wonder what goes on over there....
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But I think Britain is pretty epic either way....it would be AWESOME if they had a ton Witchcraft stuffs goin on
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I've definitely seen the symbol before. In a book, too, not the Blair Witch Project. No idea what book it was, although I suspect it wasn't entirely trustworthy.
Awe...now i want to go to Britain...
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XD Yea, I wonder what goes on over there....
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mrgreen
But I think Britain is pretty epic either way....it would be AWESOME if they had a ton Witchcraft stuffs goin on
BlazingDrei
ur right!
rofl

oh yeah!
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THIS IS INCORRECT!

They symbol that the website you have linked above is calling a "hexagram" and saying that it comes from India is actually a magein david, more commonly know as a "Star of David". The top triangle strives upward, toward God, while the lower triangle strives downward, toward the Earth, the fact that the triangles are intertwining is meant to represent God's connect to man and vice versa.

I don't know where your website got its info from, but if its wrong about one symbol, who's to say that its not wrong about other symbols on its list, or maybe even all of them! Maybe you didn't get the symbol from a movie, but this site very well may have.



The Shatkona Yantra is a vedic symbol.

the vedic period in india, started 1500 years before christ.

king david died around 970 years before christ.

seeing as most of the s**t the jews/Israelites got in regards to culture they appropriated from other wandering semitic tribes, I think we're gonna have to give the sign to the Indians.

not to mention the vast intermingling of cultures during Solomons time.

lemme guess, you didn't even bother checking this s**t.

Sigh.

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