You can’t make this stuff up!

July 23rd, 2008 by Russell Glasser

Latest nugget of 40-carat irony from the irrational world (emphasis added):

A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a cemetery in central Indiana.

Better luck next time…

Posted in stupidity, superstition, Wicca | 9 comments

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  1. ambulantic:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 am

    Check out what Tanzania’s “witchdoctors” are doing to those of the popualtion that are albino. The BBC recently made a report on this.

  2. ambulantic:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 am

    I wouldn’t be suprised if that troll is actually from my neighbourhood

  3. Adrael:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 am

    Once again, The Atheist Experience shows it’s characteristic selective bigotry. You people are always spewing bile at Wiccans ’cause you know we’re so peaceful and gentle and none of us would harm you. I don’t see you throwing your hateful comments at other pagan religions. Why don’t you start bashing the crazy Zoroastrians, huh? They’re the real threat!!! Leave us decent, Goddess-fearing people alone!.P.S.: Also, to you and your little buddy Dillahunty, how about I come down there and punch you in the face for Gaia?.

  4. rogerdr:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 am

    It’s easy to be smug about such nonsense, but lets at least recognize that her mistake was small and only hurt herself. Wicca, in general, is hopelessly deluded in so many ways, but at least they are a pacifistic group by nature. There are other religions, however, that cause pain through actions that are neither accidents nor limited to themselves or their followers.We can laugh at her, but she could as easily have dropped a kitchen knife while cooking. It’s a far cry from denying condoms to thousands of people in Africa at risk from AIDS or crying “Allah hu ackbar!” from the cockpit of a jumbo jet.

  5. tracieh:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am

    And what I’ve learned from doing Atheist Eve is that if you did make it up, you’d be accused of portraying strawmen, because no true Xian (or in this case Wiccan) would ever do/say anything of the sort.

  6. PhillyChief:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Truth is stranger than fiction. Maybe this will become a new part of the ritual. I mean, if she or others at the ritual have a good couple of weeks following this, then clearly that’s evidence that someone stabbing themselves in the foot during the ritual improves the efficacy of the ritual, right? I mean, that’s like scientific!

  7. Paulos:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am

    At least they took her to the hospital instead of trying to do healing magic.

  8. rogerdr:

    July 23rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    adrael for the win! I wonder if any Christians would get it, even regular viewers of the TV show?

  9. felix:

    July 27th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    I agree.adrael wins the thread.p.s. send your Avesta to the Atheist Experience or PZ, and demand desecration.

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