Witch Weather - Part One
What do you know about superstitions about the weather in various parts of the world?
What do you know about the causes of ignorance?
Perhaps you have sometimes prayed for rain or for rain to stop or for the wind to stop or for the waves to stop or for the sea to recede.
How do you assess the causes of poverty?
Perhaps you prefer to pray for poverty to end.
What do you know about the necessity for good literacy in the 21st century?
What do you know about the necessity for good education systems?
What do you know about various forms of illiteracy?
How easy or difficult is it for you to understand these questions?
How easy or difficult is it for you to answer these questions?
What do you know about inappropriate livestock practices and other inappropriate farming practices?
What do you know about the connection between the extreme weather and extreme poverty?
What do you know about the internalisation of dangerous beliefs?
What do you know about scapegoating?
What do you know about a lack of suitable leadership?
There are many superstitions about the weather, whether associated with Saint Swithun, North American groundhogs, sailing or local customs.
Perhaps you are mainly interested educating children about history and beliefs and facts.
Perhaps you are mainly interested in learning through art.
What have you been learning about oppression, including internalised oppression and oppressive weather?
What do you know about wilderness?
Perhaps you have only seen it in images, and possibly in art.
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What has your socialisation taught you about the world, and about yourself?
How, if at all, have you attempted to re-educate yourself towards the truth?
Perhaps you already believe you know who is a witch and who is not.
In historical and anthropological terms, a witch is a scapegoat, in much the same way as other maginalised and demonised persons.
Scapegoats, by definition, have often been often dehumanised, even when they attempt to conform to local social norms. They are never regarded as locals.
What do you know about a sense of identity and a sense of community?
What do you know about nomads?
What is your acquaintance with the history of the Jews, the legend of the Wandering Jew and the history of antisemitism?
What is your acquaintance with the history of the Romani people and anti-Romani sentiment?
What is your acquaintance with the history of refugees?
What do you know about the treatment of various minority groups, whether on the basis of ethnicity, disability, religion, race, age, sexual orientation or subcultural preferences?
What do you know about moral panic and mob violence and mob rule?
What do you know about Christian views on magic?
What do you know about medical explanations of bewitchment?
What do you know about McCarthyism in the United States and the witch smellers of South Africa?
What do you know about chemical weapons and biological agents and nuclear weapons and armour-piercing ammunition?
What do you know about psychological warfare?
What do you know about the meaning of Red Scare and Lavender Scare and xenophobia?
How do you interpret the past?
How do you interpret the present?
How do you attempt to prevent poverty, ignorance, mental illness and child abuse?
How do you assess need?
How do you interpret situations?
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How do you usually prepare for witch weather?
How do you define witch weather?
What do you know about drought and its causes?
What do you know about floods and their causes?
What do you know about heat waves and cold snaps?
How do you assess warnings?
How do you attempt to prepare for adversity?
How do you attempt to make the most of fortuitous circumstances?
How do you usually assess the causes of harm?
How do you usually assess the causes of good luck?
How do you assess claims of witchcraft in relation to history in one context or another or another or another?
What do you know about the prevalence of child marriages and child sexual abuse?
What do you know about the prevalence of corruption?
How do poverty and ignorance cause violence in one situation and another and another and another and another and another and another and another and another?
What do you know about the causes of massacres and genocides?
How do you attempt to contribute to political improvements?
Perhaps you attempt to do so through journalism.
How are you a role model and for whom?
How do you compare a conspiracy theory with a real conspiracy?
What do you know about the activities of wonderful witches to prevent harm in the world and improve lives?
Enchantments
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