Thursday, August 9, 2007

Americans get it wrong

I am wondering if Americans ever think there are Pagans in South Africa even. I have been reading several righteous comments about Traditional African Witchcraft - mostly pretty inaccurate actually and not well researched. It would appear that Americans think this is the only witchcraft there is in South Africa - and it's not at all like Wicca in America. Hello America!!! there are plenty of Wiccans in South Africa too. I even read one racist twit try to make this into a black/ white issue stating there are more Black Witches and that whites should butt out of this. Wrong again - to be a Traditional African Witch (what ever colour you may be) is something secretive and probably not a very large number at all. Pagans, Wiccans and Witches on the other hand (who are all colours) happen to exist in large numbers and are very open about practicing witchcraft. Yes it is a totally different kind of witchcraft but thanks to the English language using one description fits all. If anything the Traditional African Witchcraft is actually the minority here and the poor sangomas and traditional healers are actually taking the brunt of the whole badly proposed witchcraft supression Act. And those are the good guys.

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