[at-l] - AT "spooks" - My Contribution

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

I still have my springer stone; it is waiting patiently to make it to
the top of Lady K someday soon! :)

thru-thinker

[who seriously still wants to know if what he saw on the Trail just
south of the Shennies in 2001 has any significance to Wiccans or any
other group . . . no offense meant, but my humor and curiosity remain at
their usual, manic levels! :)]



William Neal wrote:

> I am again behind, and I hope this does not upset anybody.
>
> I almost became Wiccan, but became Roman Catholic instead.  Along the way I
> collected lots of Tarot cards, read leaves & grounds of all sorts, swung
> pendulums, and other things.  And I had a friend (through SF) smug (sp?) me
> in a parking lot near Universal in Orlando.
>
> I think my Southern Baptist foreparents are rolling over in their graves.
>
> By the by, does anyone know where I can get a copy of LONG LOST FRIEND? I
> love Manly Wade Wellman's tales of Southern Mountain folklore and he has
> mentioned the Long Lost Friend, and I would like to include it in some
> stories I am writing.
>
> William, The Zen Buddist Sufi Southern Baptist Roman Catholic Turtle
>
> PS I know that at one time is was "tradition" to pick up a small pebble at
> Springer and take it to Katahdin.  I have heard there are several traditions
> that indicate if you do that you will return safely from where you started
> or that you will return to place you journeyed to sometime in the future.
> Did anyone take a Springer stone to Katahdin?
>
> If I were leaving today, I would take a stone from my front yard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: smokinjoe [mailto:marshajones@adelphia.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:27 AM
> To: 'Felix'; 'AT-list'
> Subject: RE: [at-l] - AT "spooks" - My Contribution
>
>
> And Felix said:
>
> I was afraid of that. I've looked the picture over and...it didn't take
> long
> to figure out what we have here...beyond a failure to communicate. These
> plants are of the vinca family. They are used in a ceremony known by
> many in
> the Wicca-Vinca family as 'The Tie-die Ritual". You either tie the
> plants
> together...or, die. The death isn't that bad, actually...though,
> fortunately,
> no member has ever NOT tied the vinca together and been exposed to such
> a
> death. I believe, and this is only speculation, that the act of covering
> the
> trail with the tied-together-plants is 'Northbound-specific'...as no
> southbounder has ever witness it. Most...and, it is important to realize
> that
> it is not ALL...Most Wiccans eat ice cream when they get home.
>
>
>
>
>
> That is not it at all.   Wiccan tieoffs wil have their own identifying
> characterics.   It is nothing like Felix described.   Really, to make
> light of this very serious religion is to invite disaster upon you and
> your family, therefore it might be better for you if you just didn't
> comment on that which you know so little about.    I do know that
> Wiccans are active in all 50 states and that does include Indiana,
> (wherever the hell that is), and that to denigrate their beliefs and
> their creed is the same thing as saying to a wolf, "please bite me hard
> on my throat."
>
> Jack
>
>
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