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''Hold your noise!'' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ''Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'' A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. ''Oh! Don't cut my throat, sir,'' I pleaded in terror. ''Pray don't do it, sir.'' ''Tell us your name!'' said the man. ''Quick!'' ''Pip, sir.'' ''Once more,'' said the man, staring at me. ''Give it mouth!'' ''Pip. Pip, sir.'' ''Show us where you live,'' said the man. ''Pint out the place!'' I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church. The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a piece of bread. When the church came to itself,—for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,—when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.

Bwip and Break

March 29th, 2016 | by Trae Dorn

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Launching a New Witchcraft Podcast ( September 18th 2018 )

So long time readers of this site know that I used to write a lot of articles on Witchcraft and Wicca. As I've split off content production on to different sites though, that's kind of the one thing that hasn't been brought along. Something personal? It's here. Something nerdy? Nerd & Tie gets it. Have a fun convention story? I incorporate it into UnCONventional. But my witchcraft stuff? Uh... maybe my Tumblr gets it?

Well not so much anymore.

On Saturday, which is also Mabon, the first episode of Bullshit-Free Witchcraft launches. It'll be a monthly show, but I'm going to be releasing the first three episodes weekly right away... with the fourth coming out a few weeks after (near Samhain). The show is my occasionally snarky (but still serious) take on the modern Witchcraft movement, and I think anyone interested in Witchcraft will enjoy it.

Probably. So, y'know, consider looking at it.

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