Stories of darkness given at the Catholic meeting on witchcraft and Satan in Salem, Massachusetts, "the witchcraft capital of the world."

[mdgspencer]

Salem shrine hosts symposium on exorcism, the occult

SALEM -- Locals are all too aware that their city is considered the witchcraft capital of the world, and that October is its busiest and most lucrative season for tourism. What better time and place t

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“‘As a lapsed Catholic, before I quite knew what was actually happening to me, I fell hard and deep under the spell of Laurie Cabot and her community of Salem witches,’ Keene said.”
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“‘I am standing here today as a living witness to testify to the redemptive and the restorative power of the Holy Eucharist,’ Keene said.”
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“‘When you ring the front doorbell of the dark kingdom, someone always answers,’ Father McManus said.”

“‘When the Christian context of Halloween is taken away, you have the emergence of darkness given permission in our culture to explore,’ Father McManus said.”

 

[Mattapoisett64]

The idea of Salem as the “witchcraft capital of the world” is a laughable piece of commercial hokum cobbled together by merchants using the story of the so-called Salem Witch Trials as a tourist draw, with the addition of modern-day pretenders trying to make a buck. If anyone remembers their history, the whole point was that there WEREN’T any witches, but people who were falsely accused by girls stuffering from hysteria and mass suggestion. We have much more to fear from “spells” coming out of Hollywood and the media center of New York than anything coming out of Salem Massachusetts.

 

[Dan_Defender]

In any case there were many more witch hunts in England and Germany in the 16th-17th century, so why would Salem stand out? doesn’t make sense.

 

[mdgspencer]

More information on witchcraft in Salem today is provided at a news source at: https://www.news.com.au/travel/trav...y/news-story/f0242d4e49d51c377d463380c42d835b

“In a twist of fate, the town that is most famous for killing ‘witches’ has become a modern day Mecca for real-life followers of ‘the craft.’ Now dubbed ‘the witchcraft capital of the world’, there are an estimated population of 2000-plus witches and pagans living in and around Salem and this number is steadily increasing.
“Since Salem is a ‘No Place for Hate’ community, it embraces all lifestyles, backgrounds and preferences,” explained Ms Fox. “But what the history of the trials does do is provide a platform and context for explaining the religion and belief system of Wicca and Witchcraft.”
Wiccans, witches, warlocks, druids and everything in between; the magically-inclined population here spans the gamut of serious practitioners; from the old school head-to-toe-in-black variety, to the new, younger generation of tech-y witches who share spells on their Insta accounts and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a pointy hat.”

Salem has a population of 41,000 people.