Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The more things change .....

"Any attempt to show witchcraft in anything even remotely resembling a favourable light, or to challenge the old representation of it as something uniformly evil and devilish, or even to present it as a legitimate object of study, can still arouse the most surprising reactions. The virtues of humanism, which Charles Saltman defined as 'sensitivity, intelligence and erudition, together with integrity, curiosity and tolerance,' have still quite a long way to go in their struggle against the mentality which produced the Malleus Maleficarum."

Gerald Gardner in The Meaning of Witchcraft, pp. 11-12

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing, and so true...

Aetius

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