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Thread #143622 Message #3316046
Posted By: GUEST,CS
02-Mar-12 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK Boy Tortured/Murdered
Subject: RE: BS: UK Boy Tortured/Murdered
"the term still retains it's original meaning." or rather I should say 'equivalent terms' to the term 'witchcraft' yet retain their meaning.
In fact a quick look at the dictionary demonstrates that the neo-Pagan usage of the term has not fully supplanted traditional meanings of the word in popular usage as I supposed and that a number of older traditional meanings are still listed alongside the more contemporary "a believer in Wicca":