Comments on: Village Plans Scotland’s First Official Memorial To Witches

By: Wicasta

Wicasta — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:42:58 +0000

Hi, Angela. Thanks for your comments. But I think your dissatisfaction is misplaced. I never quite know how to respond when people say things such as “old ways that your Church’s didn’t like” and seem to assume that this web site is an archive directly associated with the Catholic Church. I know people mean well and get caught up in the moment, but the reality of the situation on the ground is that the people who are responsible for the transcription of the “Malleus Maleficarum”, which one finds here, are all Pagan. There’s not a “Malleus” sympathizer among us. We established this archive because at the time of its inception, one would have been hard-pressed to find a Christian who wanted to talk about the “Malleus Maleficarum”. But it was something we thought needed to be talked about.

I feel compelled to remind people that this web site was established to remind the average person of this evil work, not to celebrate the Catholic Church or the “Malleus Maleficarum”. As our old tag line used to say, “Some things should not be forgotten”. It was never meant to be a celebration of the “Malleus Maleficarum”. It’s a reference for a historical artifact, nothing more. We are certainly not affiliated with any Christian clergy and bear about as much responsibility for the “Malleus Maleficarum” and the harm that came from it as those people who visit the web site and read the text.

In the end, I would suggest that if anyone wants to lodge a formal complaint about the “Malleus Maleficarum” or the Catholic Church in general, the appropriate place to do so is at the official Vatican web site – http://www.vatican.va/ – which could properly be considered the official web site of all Catholics. I encourage anyone with a grievance about the “Malleus Maleficarum”, its subject matter or associated materials, to write a letter to The Pope and express their dissatisfaction. It’s largely misplaced here.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:36:20 +0000

The title of this article alone, sickens me. Why not call it- Memorial for women who were accused of witchcraft? These were women, female human being’s, you guy’s talk about them as if they were alien’s or something. There never was “witchcraft” only the old ways that your Church’s didn’t like, so they made up a nice story, got everyone scared and then tortured and murdered people. Much like people in the US are brainwashed about Muslim’s. Maybe it’s time to grow up and stop being so afraid of those church’s.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:43:32 +0000

He said: “Apologising for what your ancestors have done in the past is futile. It is making an assumption that all these people were innocent when of course they weren’t. Practising witchcraft was against the law at the time and was considered a criminal offence and to apologise would be a mistaken view of history. If I was given a vote in Pittenweem I would certainly vote against the memorial,” he added

How patriarchal of him.

Having a snake in a house in UK can be deemed in 2012 that parents are into witchcraft and you can loose your children.

Social workers and nurses etc are programmed to believe this 2012.

So it is not his story at all.