Pagan Christianity?

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hotaire H
hotaire Oct 3, 2009 19:50:13
Replying to nigelswift

It's surprising just how long this belief lasted. In 1891, Canon J. C. Atkinson of Danby (North Yorks.) published his 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish'. He told of an old woman, Dinah, who once called him to her house to 'lay' spirits that were bothering her. When he explained that he didn't profess to 'lay' spirits, she replied :

"Aye, but if I'd sent for a priest of t'auld choch he wad a' deean it. They were a vast mair powerful conjurers than you choch-priests."

The idea of priests being magicians was still around 150 years ago!

Whooooooa! a new-age magician - Kenwyne Jones just scored!!!!!

D dodge one
dodge one Oct 3, 2009 22:38:52
Replying to hotaire

Somewhere in my storage, i've a collected works of Irish FolK-lore from first hand accounts spoken to William Butler YEATS himself. Just crammed packed with such tales. Collected round the same time-frame too.
Christ as a Magus? No more so than Moses or the Court Magicians of Pharaoh. People were mostly ignorant in those days and believed what they were told. What's changed?