Thursday 9 October 2008

Vicar Writes About Witches And Curses In Wales

Vicar Writes About Witches And Curses In Wales
"A leading church priest claims witchcraft is verve practised in areas of West Wales," starts a word story on This Is South Wales. Opulently, I'm confident it is, witchcraft is practised all all over again the UK these days and is embryonic in reputation, but not the formulate of witchcraft the priest in need is talking about, I would say.

The word story is actually about the description that occupy bright been published by a cleric, Felix Aubel, from Wales. The book is called A Rebel's Myth.

The word story states:


Dr Aubel revealed how a curse on a parishioner had to be lifted by an exorcist. He said: "To the same extent I would take in hand to as the occult is whatever thing I occupy encountered done my time in Aberaeron as part of the Welsh Congregational Chapels and besides the exterior 13 living in Trelech.

"Occult vigor is open in indistinguishable march in each areas I would say."

The book refers to children in West Wales using effigies to try and bring bad luck to other children. In the book he states: "It was this evil type of poppet that was recycled on a chapel member of chance in the Aberaeron map in 1994.

"It took an experienced Anglican exorcist to disseminate this curse, which had been placed by a witch on the orderliness of numerous preceding church member. The thrust behind this immorality was resent that had turned fashionable jealousy. Low temperature after that evolved fashionable fanatical malevolence that was subjugated money-wise by a witch."Now, as I am confident any modern pagan force know, supreme witches straight away - distinctively those subsequent Wiccan-style practices - very uncommonly cast curses. Most protection that it is wrong to curse. Not and no-one else is it careless, offer is a strong move the curse may well return on the caster.

Motionless, historically, offer is flowing indication that cursing took place in the exterior - and all sorts of children recycled this formulate of folk magic, Christians as well as pagans, witches and non-witches equivalent. You can read condescending about this in my review of an model book about curses, By Spellbook and Candle by Melusine Draco.

I contemplate it is amply doable that Dr Aubel did come on both sides of an standard or two of cursing done his 20 living as a cleric. And, let's practice it, an category wish that is a merry sensational computation to his description. Motionless, I don't contemplate this makes Dr Aubel doesn't matter what of an virtuoso performer on the occult or on what witches typically do.

If you contemplate about it, all the same it is amply potential that a parishioner would go to their cleric if they feared they had been cursed, no one is potential to run to construct the cleric that a witch had done healing magic for them, or that a witch had successfully predicted a good turn of luck send, or had helped them find whatever thing they had lost by dowsing for it.

So, vicars get to struggle about unparalleled bad stuff, but not all the affable stuff witches do. A very lopsided category.

I haven't read A Rebel's Myth, I'd seemingly read it if I got sent a review typical, but I would suggestion that Dr Aubel come guzzle to a pagan open pursuit to find out what the embryonic diagram of witches in Wales really get up to. He sway become condescending of an virtuoso performer on the object if he did.

Relatives and elapsed connected posts


http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Experienced-minister-lifts-lid-occult-practices/story-17503101-detail/story.html

A Rebel's Myth


http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/03/news-witches-blamed-for-church.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/05/review-gray-witchs-grimoire.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/review-by-spellbook-and-candle-cursing.html