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You Say “Witch” Like It‘s a Bad Thing
The answer to one question on my admission to a hospital raises eyebrows and sometimes there’s a pinched mouth (especially if the admissions intake person is an older woman). The question? What is your religion?
I answer truthfully: Wiccan…and usually have to add, “I’m a witch” for clarity.
That’s my religion, well, at least basically. In “I was once a member of a Coven,’ I gave a brief history of my spiritual quest. However something that important usually takes longer to explain because it took time to get to this belief system.
Religion usually follows Family Lines — -
My mother was Methodist and married my father whose own father was Catholic but my father wasn’t raised in the Catholic Church — his mother was Dunkard. The Dunkards (who believed in three “dunks” for Baptism — one for each of the Trinity, separated from the Anabaptist). About as far as one can get from Catholicism My Grandfather did not go to Mass; at least, I never knew him to go. I never saw my father go to Mass or if he just used Catholicism as an excuse not to go to church with my mother.. I don’t know if religion was important to him. He always said he talked to God whenever he was in the woods.
My mother was the one to initiate me and my sister to Sunday school and church services. Someone gave me a…
