Usually before these modern day witches partake of the cake and wine to
honour Horus or Pan, as we examined in part one of this chapter, a
ceremony
for any new initiates into their coven is performed. This involved
blinding,
binding, and whipping new members for the purpose of purification.
However,
this ceremony is not as brutal as in medieval covens; they are good
witches,
so the whip they use now is said to be of embroidered silk. However, those
present with sadomasochistic tendencies might be satisfied. The following
five-fold kiss bestowed by the High Priest or Priestess on the feet,
knees,
genitals, breasts and lips of a new member speaks for itself [22].
In Man, Myth and Magic, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the
Supernatural, Vol. 14, p. 1867, Cavendish, we read the following:
"Only three pieces of magic can be performed at each meeting, they
claim,
and the spells should always be for the good; an evil spell rebounds
threefold upon the head of its creator. Sometimes the spell is cast
telepathically: for instance, in the case of a spell cast to cure a person
of a bad leg the witches would stand silently and 'will' the leg to heal.
On
other occasions they might use a doll, or 'fith-fath,' to represent the
sick
person - bathe the doll's leg with a healing potion, or the high priestess
might 'bind' the spell, wrapping her girdle around the blade of her athame
in a special way."
How popular has this modern witchcraft become? In the September 12th,
1982 Arkansas Democrat "Family Weekly," Georgia Frontiere appeared on the
front page. Georgia inherited the Los Angeles Rams when her late (sixth)
husband drowned in the riptides off the Florida coast in April 1979. He
was
72. But what we really are interested in bringing to your attention is her
openness about being able, says she, to talk to her dead husband's spirit,
and how she dabbles in the occult. On page 11 of the Sept. 12 issue we
read
the following: "Georgia gives Nolan Cromwell on unasked for raise ... and
Georgia, who dabbles in the occult (she says she's talked to Carroll's
spirit), mysteriously waves a hand at half-time over Haden's injured leg,
which is believed to be broken.
'I thought for sure she was nuts,' Haden says. 'Then, incredibly, after
the doctors told me they were sure it was broken, the X-rays were
negative.'
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