WWII and Wizards

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51424

Pip, THANK you for the information about WWII!

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak <pipdowns at e...>" 
<pipdowns at e...> wrote:

> There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the British pagans in 
> WW2 contributed to the war effort by planning and casting a white 
> magic protective spell against invasion over Britain. This (legend 
> says) was a massive, intensively planned effort involving every 
> available coven working on the spell on the same night.

Oh, yes. The famous occultist Dion Fortune, who sometimes called 
herself a pagan despite being a ceremonial magician in an apparently 
monotheist order, wrote about how every day she visualised the four 
archangels on guard at the four corners of Britain and St George 
standing above with his sword raised, as she prayed and meditated on 
seeking divine protection for her island home. 

I don't actually know if there are any published first hand accounts 
by participants in the Wiccan protective magic (I think it was at 
Beltane, Midsummer, and Lammas of 1939?) in which they raised the 
Cone of Power and "fired" it at Hitler and his generals with the 
shout "You will not pass!" (Altho' I would have nominated "Go away!") 
But there is certainly plenty of oral history on the subject.

Katharine Kurtz'z LAMMAS NIGHT is a fictionalised treatment set in a 
slightly Alternate universe in which Margaret Murray's theories were 
true (THE WITCH CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE, GOD OF THE WITCHES, the death 
of William Rufus was a voluntary pagan human sacrifice .... those 
theories.)

I'm saving some other topics for a combined post, but THIS I had to 
reply to immediately!