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Luvlylittlewing:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on October 22, 2013, 08:06:48 pm ---The word 'warlock' is a misnomer. It literally means "oathbreaker". The correct term for a male witch is 'wizard'.
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Interesting! :)
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on October 22, 2013, 08:06:48 pm ---The word 'warlock' is a misnomer. It literally means "oathbreaker". The correct term for a male witch is 'wizard'.
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Interesting, but then wouldn't the "Charmed" interpretation be the more correct? A witch's 'oath' is the Wiccan Rede, their one commandment, which is "If it harms no one, do what you will"
A witch who breaks that oath would be a warlock.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Luvlylittlewing on October 22, 2013, 08:41:00 pm ---I've wondered about this, as well. And Endora and Maurice? Were they married and going about their separate ways, divorced, never married?
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I always figured, whatever "marriage" was between a witch and a warlock, they were, but clearly living separate lives.
I guess I ask the questions that you're not even supposed to think of. I mean, nobody thought it weird that Samantha's own mother skipped her daughter's wedding?
As for wizards and warlocks and whatever, it's looking to me like the answer depends a whole lot on your perspective. Are you looking at the question as an "insider," a contemporary pagan, or are you looking at it as an "outsider" with the perspective of historical use--which was, I'm pretty sure, determined by outsiders. And are you looking at fiction or real life? Nobody that I know of considers the Wizard of Oz a male witch. ;)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 23, 2013, 09:24:51 am ---... Nobody that I know of considers the Wizard of Oz a male witch. ;)
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Au contraire! Remember there were good witches and bad witches in WOO. Glinda was a good witch. And how did she know so much about the Wizard? Because he was one of her ilk, of course! I'm fresh on this because I just saw the 3D version of WOO that just came out.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 23, 2013, 09:24:51 am ---Nobody that I know of considers the Wizard of Oz a male witch. ;)
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Then what did they think he was before Dorothy unmasked him?
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