Midnight thoughts: Can only girls be witches?

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Hi there, pornies! Looking good and feeling five? (Yep, Gaga again, deal with it.)

I just wrote the last piece and I guess there are a couple of things I still want to say, and this time it is about a discussion I found on Twitter a couple of days ago (it may be weeks ago when this is published in my blog.) In short: A crappy user insulted Devin Hunter (terrific author, by the way, read any of his books and articles, please) by saying he knows nothing about witchcraft since he describes himself as a witch and is a man, because witches are only women, right?

I want to take a moment to tell you that this person took the time to attack every single user that replied saying they were wrong (I ignore if it was a he or she, not that it makes any difference, mind you,) among which was your servitor. I simply retweeted the thread because I enjoyed every single response and how respected authors made fun of the topic, and this person simply asked “have you meet Andy yet?” and blocked me right away. See me suffer, bitch.

That put aside, if I say witch, the first image we get is a green-skinned, black-dressed woman with a cauldron we would all want to have (say you don’t, go ahead) and mixing strange, funny looking ingredients in it, possibly living in a cabin in the middle of the forest. Or maybe that just the most typical image of a witch. But does it mean that men cannot be witches? Not at all.

Well, Witch Hazel doesn't look that bad, does she?

A witch is someone who practices witchcraft, period, end of the discussion. There are several accounts of men who were accused and executed for being witches, fathers, brothers, husbands of witches, and so on. The focus was on women because they were seen as the weaker sex, hence they would be easily tempted by the Devil, but several men suffered the same faith as well.

Coming back to the little controversy about it on Twitter, this person said that men condemned for being witches were Saints of the Craft (or something like that) and we men should instead identify as warlocks (I’ll save this one for the next entry of this kind.) First of all, I understand a saint as a deceased person who has done two or more miracles, which is the perception of the Vatican. I agree with this and find it reasonable. But to call Saint every single man who died accused as a witch is a bit too much for me.

Finally, this person asked if we men are afraid of the “war” part of the word “warlock”. I will only say that someone said that, if that was a valid origin or the term, then he would be pretty concerned about the origins of the word “butter”, and I retweeted that with a bright smile in my face.

So, can men be witches? Not only yes, but hell yeah. This is your practice, your path, and unless you follow a tradition, nobody can tell you how it should be, unless you start taking bits from here and there, commit social appropriation (stay away from this one, I warn you) or impose your beliefs upon others, like this user was doing.

Kinky regards, K!

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