In this the approach to the Yuletide and Christmas, I wish
to share with you and warn you of a traditional story still taught to our
children. I refer to the Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel.
In this tale a harmless old woman, allegedly a Witch; living
alone in the woods and sharing gingerbread with passing children, is pushed
into an oven and roasted by two ungrateful brats.
This action is obviously an allusion to the burning times,
when an average of three million feminist Wiccans per century, over three
consecutive centuries were “roasted” by the church. Although, this is a
staggering figure when the population of Medieval Europe, is actually taken
into account. However, I digress.
Our children are actively being taught to discriminate and
persecute Witches, mad cat ladies and people who like ginger bread. It is time
to make a stand lest the Burning Times return. I ask you, have we forgotten Magna Carta?
Did she die in vain?
© Chattering Magpie 2011 with the special acknowledgement of
Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson and Anthony Aloysius St
John Hancock.
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