Witchcraft 1318, Fall of 2008: "Be careful around cemeteries!" :) x 3

"Wiccan Accidentally Stabs Herself in Foot With Sword During Good Luck Ritual"

Online source: FOX News.Com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

Note: It's just not in places like Lebanon, Indiana, where cemeteries do an occult sort of double duty.

Last summer ( August 2007) Doña Celestina of Brackettville's Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church in Brackettville, Texas, appears to have reported certain activities apparently taking place in the Catholic Parish cemetery here locally as well.

This was all discussed at a Cemetery Committee Meeting in the Old Parish Rectory Building, with the designated pastor, the Rev. Fr. Anton Quang Dinh Van present as well as yours truly, at least one deacon and others...

"LEBANON, Ind. -- A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a three - foot - long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.

"Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her left foot with the sword while performing the rite at Oak Hill Cemetery, police said.

"Gunther said she was performing the ceremony to give than ks for a recent run of good luck.

"The ceremony involves the use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the full moon.

"Gunther said [she] was aiming to put the sword in the ground, but hit her foot instead."

As this up and coming young priestess shares with us:

"It wasn't the first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot."

¡Guau! Maybe it gets easier with practice??!!

"Gunther immediately pulled the sword out of her foot, and her companions took her to Witham Memorial Hospital, where she was kept a couple of days for treatment.

"No charges were filed, police said.

"The Wiccans were warned that being in the cemetery in the city about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis after posted visiting hours constitutes trespassing.

"Wicca is a nature - based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons."

Izzat so? Humm .. so why the swords, the stabbing of the earth, and the full moon, all after dark (and after visiting hours) in a cemetery??!!