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Formerly, A Pagan Aesthetic.

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Ch. 3 The Rhetoric of Wicca Summary

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By making this video Im ultimately inviting the scorn of all internet Pagans to rise up and object. Etymology is a touchy subject for some Pagans, which is exactly what this chapter of Her Hidden Children explores. Some will defend the proposed ideas that certain words mean certain things, and you know what?

That's totally ok.

What we're looking at here is the scholarship published by Clifton regarding how historians and linguists view the topic, not colloquial or common place understanding. If you disagree with the proposed etymologies, please please comment below. This is a summary of one scholars work. Supplementary, or even contrary and opposing views are welcome to enrich the conversation. So without further ado, Ch. 3 "The Rhetoric of Wicca" in which we think about the words Pagan, Witch, and Wicca.  

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An unpublished writer but a published poet, Travis writes in the hopes that he can actually use his philosophy degree for something other than grad school. He finds pleasure in working uncommon words into his lexiconic exchanges, discovering work cited lists in religious studies books, and in general pretending his life is not dissimilar that of a 50's Parisian beatnik (ennui: check). He practices what essentially boils down to Wicca with influences from his studies in Philosophy of Hermeneutics, Existentialism, and Mysticism.
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