One to think about …

… when looking for a “label”. An excerpt I like to quote from Edain McCoy’s book – If you want to be a Witch page 7:

Two thousand years ago, Europeans did not define themselves as Witches or Wiccans. Even the word “Pagan”, derived from the Latin paganus, meaning “people of the earth,” wasn’t one people applied to themselves. The labeling of various cultural Craft traditions as Wicca, Wicce, Wita, Witta, or Wice is a twentieth-century addition to the Craft. In the clan and tribal societies of old Europe, religion and spirituality were woven into the fabric of everyday life. One might be said to possess wicca or have witta, meaning that he possesses a special skill or knowledge, but such a person would not label his religion that way. He would have been more likely to say he was a follower of a particular patron deity or was a priest of a deity within a specific cultural pantheon.

Well, two things really to contemplate. Labels and “woven into everyday life” rather than a set apart entity to MAKE time for.

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