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Joanna de Riu, Witch of the Pyrenees


is curious that we always have to throw the British Isles to find proceedings against witches in the pre-Renaissance. Therefore, in this case, I want to pay tribute to women unjustly accused (and others with some merit, though few) called "witches" local, more specifically, the witches of the Pyrenees.

Riu Joanna, a resident of Pobleta of Bellveí, Lleida, was one of those people who, without eating or drinking, was accused of witchcraft by neighbors more than 25 November 1539.

However, besides the typical accusations made against him, can poison livestock and food, make dolls with needles (which in this case turned out to be chicks wax), and the familiar intercourse with the Devil, was charged with Joanna for a fact that, whatever its nature, was something real.

A man of the people carried their sick child Joanna, and Joanna who apparently had the ability to heal the sick (curious fact to point in the field of anthropology). Unfortunately, it is explained that after doing an herbal preparation caught the night of San Juan, Joanna proceeded to heal him, but the boy died instantly. Maybe for revenge (most likely), but with a tinge of reality, Joanna had knowledge of "pseudo-medicine", and was known for it in town.

Other charges with less reason, that almost certainly came from the witch craze, included the fact of having seen Joanna a frog in the knees (in Catalonia closely related to witches) and the private prosecution of a neighbor, the cooked blamed for poisoned cheese.

All "evidence", however they were denied by Joanna, were sufficient to take Joanna to horrific torture sessions, and finally, in 1540, tied up on a bench Joanna barefoot to a bonfire that was burning his feet. Joanna confessed everything and more. His death was lost in history.

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Have you ever wondered why some people should not be pagan or why some people should be and is not it? Sure do not sound anything strange when I say that there are people shouting out there that is pagan believing a fairy or an angel (¡!), and at the same time there are people who saw that scene, fleeing from paganism and the African thinking is an RPG for people who are bored at home and not go out on weekends.

Well, I've been wondering that, among other things that cause and arising from this situation, and I have reached the following conclusion: a pagan confused with wanting to reach spiritual excellence.

At first, we all do, light new beliefs that embrace us blind, and we want to know more and more, until you reach a point where we want to "master" these beliefs, and we want it to be authorities. That to me seems normal in the heater of the moment. What I do not seem normal, everyone seems to stay in that phase. For people whose personality is very mystical and able to reach that level of rapport with the gods or spirits of tradition, fine. But there are people who are not spiritual, and are forced to because they think it will be more in touch with the gods, or the Other World, or to anyone in whom believe. At such times, people who should be exploiting more constructive aspects of their being is put aside and try to over-exploit or have skills. But no, people are forced to find and discover all the secrets ... Let's think for a moment, the pagan religions are not based on the secret after secret. There is only one religion (pagan "perhaps?) Whose aim is hysterical tradition and watertight, and that is the Wicca. The secrets are reserved for the priestly class in LA most religions, or do not the rituals of the Greek Vestal, Druids and other rituals were open to the public? What the public would take it? Nothing, in fact they were banned entry, and it seems few will care. Of course, if you're not the best, you're not nothing, right?

Logically, this creates a dilemma for religious practitioners on the one hand everyone wants to know God, practice, worship in which you believe, but if everyone was high priest, who would govern? Imagine a country full of Hindu Brahmins what's the point? And is it necessary? "Only cool if you're up at all? Why not? What do you need craftsmen, warriors or slaves? For nothing. You maintain (without whom they would not last two days) is secondary and dispensable.

From my point of view, I think I'll be a bit anti-establishment, I was not born to be a priestess, nor to be a Brahmin, nor to be druid, not the gods that I hear less.

I guess what I am about to say will hurt a lot, but I hope that what I read that correctly: sometimes we should look at the Christians. Do all claim to be cardinals and popes? No, only people with mystical attitudes and prepared for that kind of spiritual life carried out a path like that. The others include their faith in their daily lives, in a more or less obvious, and no one judged to be more or less Christian (except for rare occasions).

Then I will say, "I can not do rituals, called gods or anything like that? For nothing. Also to remind you that this is a personal opinion, I remind you that we should use some common sense. If you had some skills, aptitudes, and interests before a pagan, "now will be discarded and will try to make you an ascetic who lives in the Underworld? Well let me warn you that it will explode sooner or later, and you could adjust your beliefs to your personality, not vice versa, because then you're lying all your life, and end up running away from it because you can not meet the expectations placed on the higher ranks (although in reality, we are all valid at all).

With all this I only pretend to think about the path choose, and if we need to force both to discover secrets that you may not need. Eye, that does not discredit whole tradition based on it, or organizations engaged in all that, but I hope and I guess all the people who invested many years in something like that is because they are made for that.

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do I have time meditating on an article, and I have concluded that those who are offended, it is because it is reflected and that to me does not concern me. Sorry if someone gets angry, but the record, I criticize both individuals and streams of all kinds I do not in any particular center.

Take this situation. Any place in Europe, 1600. A sorceress / witch / doctor / midwife / pimp / pagan woman enters a shop called esoteric imaginary.
"See, I: two pink candles, a bag of incense (the Arab East the cost of a pulp and it is impossible to find in Europe in the seventeenth century), a silver chalice, yes, that with the pentacle, (for I caught very quickly when the Inquisition comes to my house), a wand calibrated by a Reiki master, and, um ... if you have, put me also four strings of red silk ... today I have too much money and silk is cheap, China has already fallen Price since Columbus discovered America ...
-Oh, wait, just got a shipment of Fluorite from Taiwan. Would you put two stones?
"Yes, I will pay with VISA of the Middle Ages.

Another situation: Gaul, the year 90 BC. A family / tribe gala is going to do a ritual
"Hey, Artius, why do we celebrate this thing called Yule?
I do not know, put it in a treaty that says we celebrate this event, although a bit strange, because the name seems to Nordic or Germanic, and who knows what happens to livestock that this Yule.
"Well, if you put in this treatise, is that true.
-let us begin ... Oh, Dagda ...!
-Dagda, who is this?
-A god we worship ... well, not us, our neighbors.
- Is it not strange? Why do you call if you do not know?
"I put in the treaty.
"Oh sorry, go on.
-O Dagda, Brigantia, Cernunnos, Lugh, Cerridwen, Morrighan you give these potatoes ...
"First, what are all these people? And second, what are the potatoes?
"These people are a list of gods that we theoretically.
- What do they do?
"They're gods of death, the Sun, one of Death, one of the Light ...
" With just two gods we believe, this time does not make much sense to call such people, right?
"Yes, I think it will be more practical if these four trash. And the potato it is apparently a vegetable far away.
- What sense does this give such Dagda potatoes?
"I really do not know. It says here that to reach that state of transit extrapersonal with the deity is to offer a symbol of fertility in order to recognize its power and carry out a cycle do not know why, but after discussing himself and talk about anthropology of a "Celtic."
"Oh, and I wanted to thank you for the harvest ...

not trying to be very offensive, but common sense makes its own limits. Paganism (and also believe that Neopaganism) is a religion, or even more, a way of life. As in all life, practicality is more logical and easy. So just what do we get all these obstacles?

Both the example of the witch as in that of the Gauls I see several flaws:

"No question what we say, the witch buy and buy things that are demanded from above without question, as the Gauls, trusting the authority has been given to a writer who no longer an individual with his objective view of things. That means that we are following a review, it may be true or not. and that happens every fall: if you put in a book is true. Well, most times, is a lie, I'm sorry. In two who claim to follow old traditions, how are you glaring faults often spend long, and it's a shame, because what we theoretically try, is to reach the same point that was reached in antiquity. This is not to say we do not have to adapt what they know and have found what they believe, but do it with some logic.

-not be practical. Most pagans (including me) have a defect that hce often fall into the most profound stupidity: we forget that religion (and culture) is carried inside, and that we should not force it engraved with a shoehorn Triskeles, but has to naturalize ourselves. Forced to hold things that you do not make sense, or to worship things that do not know, as in the case of the Gauls, it makes us more pagan, but causes us to see religion as something distant and artificial, as "end week. " When pragmatism doubt about something, I ask you seriously think that this was done X? If that is possible, there is a plus. If the answer is ridiculous, that would only spend time, money and imagination.

-not be consistent: all of the above has an answer: I do because I get the bow. Well, I'm glad you know what you do, and that you are aware of your acts. If that's the case, then you are consistent. If you say, "hey, I already know that the witches of the Middle Ages did not use candles or roses Mirra call love, but it works for me, then okay, but one must be able to justify what they do and be consistent with it. If you use candles, roses, that's fine, but at least admits that Egyptian priests used them because no fool will make you happier. Give
constantly
-metaphysical explanations of what we do: there really is someone who believes that the Gauls of the first century BC had wondered why what they thought and metaphysical and anthropological concessions of their beliefs? It's funny that I complain about this because I have a forum on reconstruction in the debate that everything related to the Celts, in metaphysical and anthropological areas, but I think that's my role in this case. And not everyone needs the same role to practice a religion. Do I have to remind you to believe in something just need to believe and know why you think so? Sometimes we take too many turns to things that are natural, such as yourself.

Well, this is my critique of the entire paganism (as Reconstructionist, recreation, Neo-Pagan, happy, unhappy ...), and all the heathen, I hope ye laughed a lot, and I await your criticisms and spells satin tie with string black for the occasion.