On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:11:32PM +0100, Volker Tanger wrote: > E.g. while being catholic myself I was attending the local > witches (wicca,asatru,...)
Hate to break it to you, but asatru is not a branch of wicca. We are not "witches" of any sort. We are heathen, we are polytheistic, and some of our number do study magic and/or divination, but magical practice is not the basis of our religion. (If you're interested in such things, http://www.webcom.com/~lstead/wicatru.html is a pretty good writeup on "exactly how and where the (few) relationships and (many) differences between �satr� and Wicca exist.") And, yes, there are plenty of us who don't like being mixed up with wiccans. Glad to see someone who at least knows the name, though! "Asatru has as much to do with wicca as it has to do with christianity, which is to say, absolutely nothing. And that's too damn much as it is." - Seen in alt.religion.asatru many years ago; I wish I could attribute it properly, but I cannot. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)
