It’s pretty dangerous in some places in the South to be a Pagan. They’ve been fired from jobs, beaten, burned out, had their children taken away, and a lot more.

Wiccan’s come in several flavors, but the source for most modern Wiccan beliefs is Gerald Gardner reconstruction. You can check out the Pagan/Wiccan page at about.com for some good basics. But there are a lot of different groups. The classic sociological study on the subject is Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler.

The murder sounds more like a drug hit than a ritual of any kind.

Yeah, not all of us believe in the three fold rule, and if we do, there are still ways around it.

You’re making the wild assumption that they can read above a second grade level.

Season 6 is my favorite. It’s the season that Buffy is forced into adulthood and all the misery that is involved. Although whenever I watch reruns of 6 and 7 I want to smack Giles so hard; he was a complete jerk.

don’t be so fucking pissy about it. Besides, since you’re not a Pagan, you shouldn’t be commenting on what they believe.

As a practicing Pagan, I’m going to disagree with you there. Satanists are mostly atheists, but being Pagan means believing in something, not nothing. We don’t do rituals for the hell of it.

My mother grew up in the South. I tended toward a lot more black and white in my wardrobe as I got older, partially because I look good in it (redhead) and partially because it was a hell of a lot simpler to coordinate. Her go to comment was, “Going to a funeral?” I should have said “Yes, yours.”

I have to give points to most of my ancestors. A lot of them arrived in the 17th century, but most of them got the hell out of Massachusetts pretty quickly. Some of them served in the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) and Revolution, at which point they seemed to say, “Welp, looks like war’s a-comin’, time to…

It’s horrible and tangential, but I studied German and the German names were absolute bullshit. Ya don’t slap a von in front of something and have it make it German. There are also major historical Nazi issues around the difference between von and Von.

I just mentioned Lindsey. She was a big rape fantasy writer for years. I doubt I could stomach any of those books now.

I read Outlander when it first came out, so I was pretty fuzzy about the events in it and looking forward to the TV series when it was announced. And then I remembered the marital rape scene. I could live with the beating scene; that was consistent and historically understandable. I could not live with Jamie forcing…

Looking at his picture, my assumption is he gets exfoliation done at least weekly, has had major electrolisis everywhere, and would freak if sweating were involved in anything but his daily workout with his personal trainer.

Yeah, the Coogan law applies in California, I don’t know what it is in New York. My assumption is, and IANAL, that some type of child labor laws would apply, at some point. I just remembered: my cousin is studying law in Arkansas; she might know.

I read comments on a post on another site, where a waitress told this story, then someone else commented a similar story.

Even San Francisco has screaming, street corner preachers.

You left off that he can heal people just like Jesus.

I figured it was his list of Swiss account numbers.

Well, I was hungry . . .