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http://www.wookey.co.uk/news.htm has provided me with the best entertainment for the day. They are looking for a witch and willing to pay handsomely for it. The 50K salary mentioned is in British pounds which equals over 80,ooo USD! I think I should learn how to cackle!
There are a lot of disgruntled witches living around the country. Wearing pointy black hats and black hessian drapes they’re reduced to casting spells whilst sitting on a sofa in front of a 38” flat-screen TV in a suburban semi, using own-brand potion ingredients sourced from the local Sainsburys. Not the des res, executive, no mod-cons, wind-swept blasted heath of their dreams. For one lucky witch though, these ancient yearnings could soon be fulfilled. There’s a unique job on offer at Wookey Hole in Somerset. It’s a job which comes with witch-perfect live-in accommodation in a spacious cave, and a 50K salary. £50,000. Enough to buy designer-label rags, frogs from Fortnum and Mason’s and a Le Creuset cooking pot.
Wookey Hole wants the appointee to go about her everyday business as a hag, so that people passing through the caves can get a sense of what the place was like in the Dark Ages. This was when an old woman lived in the caves with some goats and a dog, causing a variety of social ills including crop failures and disease. She also turned the local milk rancid.
Eventually, an Abbot called Father Bernard was summoned from Glastonbury. Armed with a bible and a candle, he entered the cave, spotted the witch and tried to reason with her. She started screaming and casting curses, and ran off into the depths of the cavern. His efforts at conflict resolution through dialogue exhausted, Father Bernard scooped up some water from the cave, blessed it, and then threw it at the witch who turned to stone. And there she stands to this day.
So the job is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch, and do the things witches do. Wookey Hole is advertising nationally and hopes to attract a strong field of candidates, with the £50K salary serving as a major incentive. Interviews for the post, which will involve on-site assessment incorporating a range or standard tasks, will take place on Tuesday 28th July at 11am. Given the nature of the role, Wookey Hole has decided to run the process on an “open audition” basis. Ambitious witches, looking for a key career move, should turn up dressed for work and bring any essential witch accoutrements. A limited range of potion ingredients will be available.
Reluctantly, Wookey Hole is allowing BOTH men and women to apply. A common misconception is that male witches are “warlocks”. Wrong. Male witches are witches. According to specialists in magic lore “warlock” is just an insult. Wookey Hole HR has accordingly been advised that under sexual discrimination law, unless it can provide documentary proof that the original witch was female (which would allow them to advertise for women only according to the exclusion to Employment and Training Law No.1661 (2003), pt.II, para 7, clause (a) – no, honestly), it can’t issue a gender-specific JD. Since Wookey Hole can’t furnish the required, legally binding proof, it has had to accept that the post might eventually be awarded to a man.
The authorities hope that Wookey Hole will employ a trans-gender witch, preferably recruited via a youth training initiative.
For further information please phone Wookey Hole
It has come to my attention that there is something important going on over at YouTube. Yes, I have an account but it’s not a place I regularly hang out at or check. It is of enough importance to make mention in case others have not heard and might be interested.
There is at least one (if not more, I don’t know of any other specific incidents) Christian man who has made it his goal to flag, insult and get all Pagans on YouTube suspended and closed. There is one gentleman who is a Gnostic Bishop, and a fairly nice guy. I’ve seen a couple of his videos in my researching. He is currently suspended because this Christian man has flagged and gotten videos removed for supposedly violating the user agreement for that site. I’ve seen the videos. They don’t violate anything. If the Christian man’s videos etc are flagged, it seems that he is not removed.
There is a petition against the religious discrimination going on HERE for any who are interested. I highly recommend that you find out more information before blindly signing and making comments. Many Pagans on that site are posting his video about what is going on. Here I am linking to one of them.
Update:
This guy has at least 3 accounts. On one, Oliviascripture, he has posted that he is leaving YouTube. On another, preachthewords, he JUST posted another, basically admitting defeat but making excuses for the accounts not getting deleted. It was posted one hour prior to this update. BOTH these accounts he has given word that he will delete. I am posting both videos so you can see them. He mentions his main account, warfareofspirit, in the videos. If you can watch them, then he has not lived up to his word. If you have any doubt as to his prior activity, check out “a sad sad day for pagans” video on his oliviascripture account (as long as it’s there)
Further Update:
This guy has created MORE accounts. Not lived up to his word. Here is an excellent response by Hand of Maat
OK, I am not generally political and lately there is no lesser evil. We are screwed no matter who we get, one up our ass, the other in our ear. Neither will be pleasant. This information was brought to my attention and I felt it necessary to post it for all Pagans and practitioners of the craft to see. Unfortunately the blog settings don’t allow this form of video embedding since it’s not Youtube or Google video and I have to just post the link. It’s about 7 min long, PLEASE watch it all and listen to the reporters.
And if you think that people being killed for being witches just doesn’t happen anymore, check out this associated press article from THIS MAY: Kenyan Witchhunt Leaves 11 Burned to Death
