This Page is Dedicated to Elizabeth Howe Executed July 19, 1692
THE BEGINNING OF THE END...
In the year 1233, Pope Gregory IX instituted the Roman Catholic Inquisition in an attempt to gain popularity for Catholicism and his church. In 1320, Pope John XXII requested that the church officially declare Witchcraft ,and the Old Religion of the Pagans, as a "heretical movement" and a "hostile threat" to Christianity.
The single most influential piece of propaganda that fueled their campaign was commissioned by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 . He instructed the Dominican monks, Heinrich Kraemer and Jacob Sprenger, to publish a manual for Witch-hunters. Two years later the Malleus malificarum, or "The Witches' Hammer" was produced. The manual was used for the next 250 years in the church's attempt to destroy the Old Religion.
"Rise up, Witches, throw off your masks
And cease crying guilt for ancient crimes;
Earth and all her children need us,
For ALL face now the Burning Times."
- L. A. Hussey
Once Long Ago, We Knew The Great Mother,
Remember Her Now,
She Has Returned.....
Shadows dancing within my mind, These shadows take me back in
time;
Past life regression I soon see, This young woman that once was
me;
Men came in, swept me away in the night, Chilled to the bone and so
full of fright;
The horses hoofs beat hard and fast, I could not break
free, this was my past;
My hands and feet bound so tight, I succumed
to them for I could no longer fight;
People looked upon me with much
hate, What had I done to seal my fate;
Wood stacked high awaiting the
fire, Murder in their eyes, that was their desire;
Burn her now and
send her to hell, Look not upon her for she might cast a
spell;
Overcome with pain and sorrow, I begin to scream and cry, That
last words that I hear, DIE WITCH DIE
