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Many of today’s questions are inspired by the book Witchcraft in Illinois by Historian Michael Kleen. The history of witchcraft in Illinois is scattered and sparse. But what remains, especially a massive folk compilation of just one county, suggests that even as recently as a century ago, folk knowledge of witchcraft was common, also suggesting that the practice of witchcraft was once common as well. Kleen wrote, “Convinced of American progress, historians dismissed witchcraft as a ‘miserable superstition’ and an ‘imaginary crime’ long vanished from educated minds.” What is Creator’s perspective?
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We learned recently from Creator that Reptilians taught sorcery to early Native Americans. One of the feared powers of witches was the supposed power to “shapeshift” and take on the form of an animal. A great many folk tales recount incidents of witches taking on the form of a black cat, for instance, to stalk the witch’s victims. Were some of these incidents genuine, but involving shapeshifting Reptilians taking on the persona of a witch in order to spread fear and disbelief?
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One of the recurring themes in witchcraft lore is the notion of witches “selling their soul to the devil” in exchange for their magical powers. And while Creator has taught that such a thing cannot happen in actuality, the belief in the validity of this pact can turn this fiction into experiential fact, in that the divine is constrained to honor the belief and choices of such practitioners, leaving them unprotected, and open playthings for the interlopers to have their way with. Not to mention the severe karmic ramifications for the harm inflicted on the self and others as a consequence. What is Creator’s perspective?
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Kleen noted that religion, although according to history being widely practiced, was actually rarely used to combat fear and victimization by witchcraft. Rather, what was popular was “fighting fire with fire,” in that those fancying themselves and loved ones and neighbors and associates as victims of witchcraft would fight back, essentially, with witchcraft of their own, by hiring or engaging witch doctors or witch masters who would combat the witch for them—for a fee of course. Others fearing being “bewitched” would resort to folk defenses such as shooting silver bullets at effigies of suspected witches. Since such remedies leave out the divine, the likelihood of massive karmic missteps for all involved seems obvious. What can Creator tell us?
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A great deal of witchcraft and belief in witchcraft revolved around agriculture. One particularly interesting belief was the notion that witches could steal a cow’s milk with the use of a towel. The story goes that the witch would hang a towel on a rack, kneed and squeeze a corner of the towel as if it was a teat, and draw milk out of the towel and into a waiting bucket as if it was the cow itself. This was suspected when farmers would suddenly and unexpectedly have “dry cows.” Is there ANY truth to these stories? What is the real backstory?
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One of the more startling Illinois stories surrounding bewitching is that of the Williams sisters. Sixteen and eighteen years old, the two girls were reportedly normal by day, but in the evening would run off into the corn and then “returned to their home, and with almost supernatural ability, climbed to the roof and began dancing near its precarious edge. Their father, James Williams, in front of around fifty spectators, pleaded with his daughters to come down. They replied with animal-like shrieks and groans.” Even the New York Times picked up this 1871 story. The sisters claimed to have been bewitched by an old woman who lived nearby in retribution for refusing to become witches themselves. What can Creator tell us?
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“Milk sickness” is a problem only dairy farmers remain aware of. But in the 1800s it was a huge problem. Abraham Lincoln’s own mother died of it at a young age. Turns out, the problem comes from cows ingesting a particular weed, the “snakeroot plant.” The plant is toxic to humans, but apparently not to numerous herbivore animals. The toxin gets into the milk and can inflict humans with serious illness and even death. Before the cause of this danger was finally discovered, milk sickness was often attributed to witchcraft. Could this plant be from the same beings who introduced witchcraft itself? Is the plant itself an extraterrestrial import? If so, who brought it, and roughly when? Are new problematic species of animals and plants still being imported today, or very recently if not currently? And if they have stopped, why?
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Witches are often associated with poisonings. People were implored never to accept gifts from those suspected of being witches. In fact, in German, the word “gift” means poison. Kleen wrote, “Through spreading physical illness through purported acts of generosity, witches upset the balance between neighbors at a time when sharing and exchanging goods was not only common practice, it was a necessary element of community life.” What can Creator tell us?
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Kleen wrote, “Winning love, attracting a man or woman and keeping them faithful was (as it always has been) a primary concern, and much of the folk magic recorded was dedicated to those ends.” Most love spells were examples of contagious magic. Contagious magic involved the use of physical ingredients that were once in contact with the targeted person. The physical proximity of material items, such as hair and blood, and the ingestion or binding of these items, was believed to increase the spell’s potency. What can Creator tell us?
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Witchcraft is mysterious partly because its history has been largely lost in just the span of a century. A lot of people would be tempted to think “good riddance,” but the fact a social change of this magnitude can happen and be forgotten so quickly, and in just a few generations, suggests something far more sinister is behind it all. Can Creator share how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol can protect us from the hazards of witchcraft, and heal those who introduced its nefarious practice to humanity in the first place?
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