It’s sad that children dress as witches

Halloween is here again. Ghosts, goblins, demons and witches roam the night. And children dressed up as such roam the streets collecting candy or else. But wait, witches are not part of Halloween night.

In pagan belief, witches were good women — mostly. They were healers and soothsayers and repositories of arcane knowledge. A witch did not wander about with the ghosts and goblins on that night, instead, she used her magic to protect the living.

The stereotypical witch of today was created mostly by the Catholic church in the Middle Ages. An ugly, evil old hag with a black pointy hat, riding a broom. It was the propaganda of a 500-year orgy of religious fanaticism and psychopathic sadistic savagery inflicted upon the peoples of Europe. They were the Inquisitions.

And, by far, most of their victims were women. It is thought that perhaps as many as 100,000 innocent women, in Germany alone, were hideously tortured and then burned alive tied to a stake. It was truly a misogynistic holocaust.

Like Satan, the evil witch of the Middle Ages has been sanitized, commercialized and even cartooned. Alas, it is so very, very sad that today, little girls are dressed as witches to go out trick or treating on Halloween night.

What if a child appeared on your doorstep dressed up as an inmate from Auschwitz? Would that be funny or cute? Yet there is no difference. So it goes … Robert Matthews Willis Point