Some of the best ideas are born of leisurely chats with friends. One such event happened today as my earth sisters and I were discussing medieval torture. Odd? Yes....for us?
No. Lol. Anyone who knows us well would agree. Trust me...
The topic steered toward the treatment of witches. How they were persecuted, unnecessarily, and tortured, brutally. We discussed one of the many reasons behind this particular treatment. It's told that the reason witches were executed as they were, ie; burned, drowned, hung, etc...was because the church forbade the spilling of blood.
Ha! Really? The thought process astounds me. How anyone could think that because blood wasn't spilled that exonerated them on cold blooded murder is beyond me. It's disgusting, for lack of a better word.
It made us wonder. What would happen if the same logic was applied today? Would they be successfull in their attempts to "purify" the world by ridding it of our kind? I bet you can guess my answer...lol...
Hellz no, they wouldn't.
You see...we have something our ancestors did not. We have a voice. Not just the voice of a few in a village sorely outnumbered by the "do as I say not as I do" crowd. No sir...
Our voice carries over the seas, deep into the mountains. It breaches stateliness and country borders. It knows no time clock.
We are kindred, my brothers and sisters of the earth. We speak for each other when one is weak. We commune in ways no man can infiltrate. We share in ritual and guidance. Love and silence. Earth shaking shouts and joyous laughter.
And we watch.
We pay attention to those who wish us ill. We take note. We gather in numbers, daily. Never again to be burned and banished. We are strong in spirit, soul and love....but we are not cowards. We learned from the treatment of those who came before us. We may not pray in the same way the rest of the world does but that does not mean we are without faith. In fact, we are strong with it. Strong in the knowledge that what transpired so many years ago will never happen again. You know why?
Because we are the descendants of the witches you couldn't burn...
Blessed Be )O(
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