09/10/2023
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Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween witch.
Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, a toothless mouth beneath her disfigured nose. Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting form. A bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs.
Most think this abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature.
I disagree.
I believe this to be how witches were really seen.
Consider that most witches were women and were abducted in the night and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under secrecy of darkness.
Then presented by the light of day as a confessed witch.
Few, if any, saw a frightened normal looking woman being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture. To be questioned until she confessed to anything that was suggested to her, and to give names or say whatever, just to stop the questions.
Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed witch.
As the witch was paraded through the town, enroute to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned, or disposed of in various, horrible ways, all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body.
The jeering crowds viewed the result of hours of torture.
The face, bruised and broken by countless blows, bore a hue of sickly green.
The once warm and loving smile gone, replaced by a grimace of broken teeth, and torn gums that leer beneath a battered disfigured nose.
The dishevelled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses.
Broken, twisted hands clutched the wagon for support. Fractured fingers locked like gropping claws to steady her broken body.
All semblance of humanity gone.
This was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a witch!
I revere this Halloween Witch and hold her sacred.
I honour her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of humanity.
Each year I shed tears of respect.
May we never again witness the burnings and brutality of crazed 'Religions', men and women.
Author unknown
