A lady called today and complimented the woman who tells stories to the very young -- average age of 2 years. She liked our storyteller's energy and enthusiasm, as did her granddaughter.

However, she objected to the storyteller lighting a candle and reciting a verse at the beginning of the storytime, and reciting a verse when she extinguished it at the end.

She "didn't want [her] granddaughter exposed to witchcraft." She was certain that "the young lady" wasn't "doing a spell" but it was still "witchcraft."

I checked. Seems like this has been going on for some five years, and the "spell" that's recited is a Mother Goose Rhyme. Lighting the candle tells the young 'uns that story time has started, and extinguishing it lets them know that it's over.

There is no Circle, nothing is done Skyclad (in the public library??), there is nothing which I can associate with Wicca OR Paganism.

Any Wiccans or Pagans see any?

(NOTE: this lady lives in a heavily Mormon area of town, an EXTREMELY conservative area, where far too much money resides in houses that are not only too costly and ostentatious, but downright ugly and cheaply built as well. Even so, I think she means well.)