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The witch job that earns £50,000

BBC NEWS: “A Job Centre is advertising a ‘witch’ vacancy with tourist site Wookey Hole, in Somerset, for £50,000 a year.
The witch, who has to live in the site’s caves, is expected to teach witchcraft and magic.
Wookey Hole staff say the role is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch and do the things witches do.
The advert for the post, placed in the local press as well as job centres, says applicants must be able to cackle and cannot be allergic to cats.”

(Via BBC.)

Witchcraft Growing Faster Than Religion’s Big Three

Your News Network: “While Jews, Muslims and Christians fight among themselves, one religion has darted in front of all the others to become the America’s fastest growing faith.
The religion of the witch trials becomes religion of the future with the membership exploding, according to experts. This is bringing consternation to believers in the Big Three of faith.

One expert claims that the number of Wiccan experts is doubling every 30 months. A recent book entitled ‘Generation Hex’ by author Marla Alupoaicei declares that it will be the third largest religion of faith by the year 2012. This explosion of membership in Wicca has come about because of social estrangement, loneliness and the need to belong according to Dillon Burroughs co-author of the book. Although the West Coast and Salem, Massachussets is experiencing the most rapid growth, groups can be found all over the country, including the South and Mountain states. “

(Via Digital Journal.)

The ‘witch-hunts’ of history

WalesOnline: “The Oxford Dictionary of English describes a witch-hunt as ‘a search for and subsequent prosecution of a supposed witch’, or ‘a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views’.
Historically, the term describes the investigative procedures used during witch-hunts of the Middle Ages up until the early Colonial period, when investigators were hunting for ‘witches’.”

(Via Wales Online.)

Mystery behind Pendle Witches’ trial in 1612 revealed

Pendle Today: “High on a hill in the wild and lawless area of Pendle, a secret meeting is held at Malkin Tower.

By the end of the year, most of those present have been sentenced to death at Lancaster Castle - hanged for the crime of witchcraft.

‘Sabbat’, a new play by Richard Shannon, attempts to unravel the mysteries behind one one of England’s most famous trials, that of the notorious Pendle Witches.”

(Via Pendle Today.)

Coconut Grove witch runs shop, leads coven

Central Miami - MiamiHerald.com: “Once a novice working psychic hot lines in Kendall, Richardson these days has a long list of faithful clients. Among them is Hilda Collins, a Spanish language instructor.

”Every time she reads my cards, she hits it on the nose,” Collins said. “She just radiates harmony. Whatever is troubling you, she makes it go away.”

As a little girl attending Baptist services in Chatsworth, Ga., Richardson said she was fascinated by the occult, bedazzled by TV sitcoms I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.

”Something inside my heart and soul screamed for something more,” Richardson said.

She moved to Miami in 1976 and got an accounting/business degree from Miami Dade College. But it wasn’t until 1989, while on vacation in California, that she found what she was searching for. It came in the form of a book titled The Truth about Witchcraft, which she bought for $4.95.”

(Via Miami Herald.)