Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!ernie!tedrick From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Satanism, witchcraft, paganism,etc. Message-ID: <10843@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:37:48 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10843 Posted: Wed Oct 30 07:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:38:24 EST References: <12090@rochester.UUCP> <599@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <12312@rochester.UUCP> <37@birtch.UUCP> <445@scgvaxd.UUCP> <53@birtch.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: tedrick@ernie.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 8 Keywords: outlawing witchcraft Real practioners of witchcraft might not object to laws against their practices, since part of the game is deception and presenting an appearance of respectability. Laws would only force them to become more impeccable. Another point is that many ordinary people practice techniques of witchcraft without knowing what they are doing (hexing for example).