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Nov 18 - Nov 25, 2001 |
Is your teenager a Witch?
Wiccan religion is more than just curses and spells
By Donna Lypchuk
Originally Published: 2001-10-21
Is your darling teenage girl into witchcraft? Apparently there are tell-tale signs. According to one mother I know, who prefers to remain anonymous lest a well-meaning exorcist show up at her door to free her daughter of her demonic tendencies, "First she started wearing all black. Even black underwear. And purple nail polish. Then I noticed she was spending a hell of a lot of time on the computer... and when I went through the history, they were all sites that said things like Magickal spells or Black Magic or rituals.
"When I looked, I saw that some of these sites were really scary, one actually opened with a graphic of a face of a demon named Pazu and said something like 'Beware all ye who enter here... any spells you cast here shall come back to you 3x3x3.' Others were more benign. More for treehuggers than Wiccans. Then she started buying candles and lighting one every night before she went to bed. She's only 12 so I really don't even like the idea of her playing with matches. So I confronted her and she told me that she was a Wiccan. That she was just practicing her religion and I had no right to stop her. Oh, she's also wearing this satanic-looking silver pentacle, but I thought that was more because she was into a certain kind of music. My worry is, just who does she think she is trying to control when she is doing does these rituals? I told her, 'if you want good grades, study. Don't light a candle. You have a problem with me, talk to me. Don't like a candle.' What a weirdo!"
According to B.A. Robinson of the Religious Tolerance Organization in the United States, my friend's daughter isn't as weird as she might think. "Youth often go through a period of spiritual searching. They sometimes abandon the religion of their parents and seek a different religious group or spiritual movement that is more suited to their beliefs."
"Magadalena," a practicing High Priestess in the Wiccan cult in Toronto, goes on to explain why teenage girls might find the Wiccan religion attractive. "First of all there is a lack of sexist beliefs and practices. Both men and women are viewed as having a female and male side, and the female principle, which is often identified as 'mother earth,'" is often considered to be just as powerful and even more important than the male. Secondly, like all other aboriginal-based religion, Wiccans are deeply concerned with the environment. Thirdly, the witch has come a long way, baby... from the Salem Witch trials! She's pretty hot and tempting now!"
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