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 Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:07 pm
I was doing an essay on a particular witch trial for a history class last year, and some of the stuff I was reading was quite... interesting.
Hilarious actually. Not the burning/hanging of perfectly innocent and benevolent people. The relationship between Christianity and Witches.
Around the 800s AD the Christian religion maintained that the belief in witches was purely pagan, and Christians did not believe in such things. If you believe that witches truly exist, you are pagan.
Later, a Bible passage miraculously (because there is no Christian magic, only miracles) appeared. It said something along the lines of 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'. But if Christians don't believe in witches, how is this possible?
And so the witch-hunts began.
You know, I don't have a problem with Christianity in general, just the people who go all crazy religious and contradict themselves. Okay, so the Christian Bible contradicts itself; but it is up to individuals to discern what to believe and what not to believe, what to take for truth and what not to.
I just felt like posting this. No real questions, so if anyone wants to raise a debate or question over this, be my guest. Deny my point (I will quote it back to you if need be), or add to the history of witchcraft, witches, witch hunts and witch trials.
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:51 am
The "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" line seems to crop up occasionally in Wiccan communities who quickly attest that the original translation was "poisoner", not "witch": however (amusingly), the Hebrew word used was ha Kashaph/m'khashephah, and meant a specific kind of witch (one who performs aggressive or destructive spells against others). The word was translated as "Pharmakeia" in Greek - namely, one who concocts potions and poisons.
Now, further to that, there was also the witch of Endor, who helped Saul out by raising the prophet Samuel's ghost, for whom another word was used entirely. My point being, perhaps the original source stated that a particular kind of witch was not to be believed in?
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