SATURDAY SATIRE: The Witch's Mark


 

SATURDAY SATIRE: The Witch’s Mark

During the witch hunts of the late seventeenth century, someone came up with the idea of a witch’s mark (not to be confused with a witch’s teat). The witch’s mark was thought to be a place on the body that Satan had touched and marked someone as a witch. Accusers would claim scars, birthmarks, and other skin imperfections were these supposed marks. People that believed this thought that the mark would have little to no feeling and could be poked with a sharp object without the bearer feeling pain. This absurd for several reasons. For one, most witches don’t believe in Satan and therefore cannot be marked by him. For another, if witches actually had specific marks that showed they were witches they wouldn’t be hard to find. On top of that we now know that scarring that goes deep into the tissue and skin cancer can cause areas of the skin to lose feeling. Thankfully, this ridiculous idea died out fairly quickly and wasn’t taken seriously in many courts.

So, if you’re searching your own body for some mark or sign that you are a true born witch, you can stop now. We don’t have any special markings to differentiate us from everyone else. What makes us what we are is inside us, and we can choose whether or not to show it.

Have a great weekend! Blessed be!

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