Interview with a Male Witch 
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on 05-07-2012 at 03:28 PM (268 Views)
I thought college was filled with theoretical bullshit to put it quite frankly. Few subjects really sparked my interest. Philosophy though was a study I had found pretty interesting. I found it opened my mind a little, as well as help me to think more rationally.
One summer while taking a philosophy course, I struck up a conversation with a park attendant named John. I found out John was a real big philosophy nut, and he offered me some extra books on the subject for supplemental reading. I knew him a few years, but we never really discussed personal stuff. It was at that point he told me he practiced witchcraft. It was only after that when I looked at him(I mean really looked at him) and said quietly to myself: ‘you know goddammit he really does look like a witch” I mean with the beard and all,sideburns, You have him wear a large pointed cone shaped hat, and he had Warlock written all over him
So like some participants in our AZN chatroom, I got totally creeped out by our conversation. I never had any experiences with the supernatural. Scary movies about devil worship like the Omen, scared the living hell out of me. I’m not an ignorant person though, I respect people's beliefs and don’t want to misinform you by implying that people who practice witchcraft are evil, this is untrue because for the most part John was a good guy. Eventually we talked a little bit more, and finally we got around to a Q&A session which I themed:
Everything you ever wanted to know about a Witch but were too freaked out to ask.
I naturally (or should I say supernaturally) asked the FAQs
1) What do you guys believe in?
2) Do you worship the Devil?
3) If a clean cut Mormon in a short sleeve shirt wearing a tie, dress pants, and sneakers knocked on your door and gave you a free Mormon Bible, would you kick his ass, or just cast a spell on him where he’d get a flat tire in the ghetto?
John answered all my questions openly. Naturally the skeptic in me kept chipping away and I honed in on the one thing people who know nothing about Witchcraft always, always ask. LIke asking a magician to do a trick, I asked John: “Hey john so you say you cast spells, cast one for me, I wanna see it in action, make me a believer man”
His answer was, ‘yes I can cast a spell, but it’s not something I do haphazardly, I do it to people i really dislike, but I do it with care because bad things can happen”
So I stopped asking. After that conversation, I hadn’t seen John until the next summer, I thought he just quit or moved. His motorcycle was always parked in the front of the park so I knew when he was working. One day I saw him get dropped off to work by his wife. He was on crutches . After I greeted him, I looked down and his left leg was gone, amputated. He told me that some old man didn’t stop at a corner and he went flying off his bike. I didn’t know what to say but I’d be lying if i didn’t say that conversation about the spells was the first thing that entered my mind. Mmm was this one of those "bad things" that happened from a spell gone wrong? I felt sorry for him, and another year passed before I saw John again.
Again John was MIA. I finally got curious and asked his boss where John was. I found out that he took his own life. A gunshot to the head. John had had enough, he had cast a spell for the final time.
Now some may say: 'great, he’s a witch, he’ll burn in hell where he belongs', I thought differently. I silently prayed and wished that maybe, just maybe, he’d end up at that other place. In the end, we’re all still deserving of some peace, even Witches & Warlocks.
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