My TOAD is now an Art Car Project in Progress – and On Being Homeless the Travelling Art Exhibit

My Car

On Being Homeless – The Art Exhibit – Show #1

On Being Homeless – Painting #1 of 9

On Being Homeless – Painting #4 of 9

On Being Homeless – Painting #5 of 9

On Being Homeless – Painting #9 of 9

On Being Homeless – Travelling Art Exhibit – Show #2

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Hoodoo is Scottish not African

someone sent me a link to a blog post with the words: “You’ll want to read this one!” I did. Here it is if you want to read it as well. The post is written by a New Orleans style Hoodoo practitioner, in response to comments received on an older post s/he had written. S/he was quite upset over the fact that readers had misunderstood a spell s/he had quoted from Hyatt’s book on Hoodoo. S/he than goes off into a snit over the fact that his/her readers are idiots for not knowing how to interpret African American dialect. In short the post was a rant, in a style not to unlike what you’d expect me to have written.

The part that gets me is this:

I guess I now have a clearer understanding of why some teachers of hoodoo have to make it mandatory that their students actually *speak to an African American person,* because some people never have and never would and yet would think to undertake a study of African-American folk magic. The mind, it boggles.  My takeaway point from this was, in part: 

If you can’t understand the dialects of the people who perpetuate these practices, you can’t really study the sources, living or passed on. It’s part of why cat in her rootwork course encourages students to actually learn about African American culture(s) and requires that they interview people instead of just trying to learn from books (which *cannot* be done, not really, not thoroughly).

S/he is of course referencing ”cat” owner of Luck Mojo. As usual, what we have here is yet another person who is too lazy to do their research and is content to quote cat’s absurdities as gospel truth. The thing that gets me is the arrogance of this rootworker, condemning their reader for not doing their research when s/he her/himself has not even done their own research! Can anyone say “Blind leading the blind”?

Well, you know me (of course you do or you would not have thought to send me the link to this blog post!) I just had to comment on this rootworker’s absurd ignorance of the origins of Hoodoo. The comment awaits moderation. whether or not it gets posted is anyone’s guess. In any case, I never comment on any blog with out first posting that comment as a post on my own blog and here it is:

I must ask: Outside of the utter nonsense preached by the owners of Lucky Mojo and it’s followers, when exactly has Hoodoo got anything to do with “African Americans” AT ALL? Answer: never. Lucky Mojo creates a good fairy tale yes, but lacks considerably on both facts and history. The history of Hoodoo according to Lucky Mojo is based, 100% on ONE BOOK, that of Hyatt. And while Hyatt’s book, does tell the history of Hoodoo FROM ONE AREA, it tells only the “than current” history of it, as it was being used in his time period by people in his local area, whom happened to be illiterate non-native English speaking former slaves, incalculable of telling him who taught them these traditions or why, and Hyatt in his ignorance, rather than to do a background check, simply ASSUMED the info was brought with them from Africa. Luck Mojo founders, in their ignorance started quoting Hyatt’s ignorance as actual fact, without doing any historical research in the the ACTUAL history of either the word Hoodoo or it’s practice. Lucky Mojo followers in turn quote cat’s ignorance, likewise never lifting a finger in research, and blindly assuming everything that comes out of cat’s mouth is gospel truth or well researched facts.

FACT: The word Hoodoo originates from Pictish Scotland. Hoodoo by translation means “haunted, paranormal, or supernatural”. It dates back to around 300BC-300AD and was used by the Picts of Scotland. The word “witch doctor” by translation means: “hunter of witches or one who drives out witches”. African Vodun was introduced to America in the 1700s. Scottish women taught their house slaves hoodoo poppet magic at the same time Catholic priests were teaching the house slaves about Jesus, Mary, and Saints. The end result was the slaves combined the words hoodoo and vodun to get voodoo. And yet, you hear practitioners today telling you that hoodoo is a “new word” created in the 1800s in New Orleans? How do they explain “hoodoo mountain”, “hoodoo gorge”, “hoodoo rock”, “hoodoo valley”, and the hundreds of other places in Wales and Scotland, which have used those names close to 2,000 years? Today you hear people talk about hoodoo and witch doctors as though they originated in Africa, and neither hoodoo nor witch doctors were ever in Africa AT ALL – both originated from Scotland! Go to Africa, look for hoodoo, you won’t find it no where. Go to Scotland, look at all those witch bottles and clooties hanging in the trees, look at the gris-gris hanging in doorways, look at the hoodoo dollies sitting on porches. Do your research, Honey, there ain’t no Africa in hoodoo, and there ain’t no hoodoo in Africa.

FACT: The word “Voodoo” is a corruption of the word “Hoodoo”, not the other way around as started on Lucky Mojo’s website. The word Voodoo does not exist in any document prior to the 1700′s. The word Hoodoo can be found in Britannic documents dating as far back as 300BC

Hoodoo is a Scottish word not an African word and dates back to before the 1300′s, though it’s use as a magic art did not become popular until the 1300′s , and was used to describe anything of a paranormal or supernatural nature and often meant “haunted”, thus why you have Hoodoo Mountain, Hoodoo Valley, Hoodoo Forest, Hoodoo Peak, Hoodoo Gully, Hoodoo Canyon, etc.. The word Voodoo comes from mixing the Scottish word hoodoo with the African word Vodun.

FACT:

FACT: A practitioner of Hoodoo is CORRECTLY called a “Witch Doctor”, a “Hedgewalker”, or a “Hoodooer” NOT a Rootworker. A witch doctor is a spiritual leader, shaman, or medicine man/woman who specializes in the removal of negative energy, curses, and hexes. Hoodoo Witch Doctors with their hoodoo doll spells, originated in ancient pre-Christian Scotland, however, in modern times, the term is usually used for African, Indonesian, or South American tribes, as well as being used by some modern neo-pagan Native American and Wiccans as well. In recent years, the term is most commonly used by hoodoo root workers and Voodoo priests.

A witch doctor is not a medical doctor, but rather a spiritual healer and one well-versed in herbal remedies, hex removal, massage techniques, and guided meditation. He or she also provides spiritual or psychological counseling for other members of their group, tribe, coven, whatever, through the use of divination, card readings, and channeling spirits.

The term “Witch Doctor” comes from the fact that they are traditionally said to be feared by witches, because of their ability to “cure” or remove and reverse curses, hexes, and the evil eye. The are commonly called upon to bless houses, crops, livestock, fresh graves, newlyweds, and babies to protect them from being cursed by witches. Like a minister they perform marriages, baptisms, exorcisms, and funerals. A witch doctor is a type of shaman. A shaman is a seer or “one who sees into the spirit world. A witch doctor is a shaman who specializes in removing negative energy, bad karma, hexes, etc., but most especially, the removal of witches and evil spirits. In other words they are exorcists.

To fully understand the meaning to the title Witch Doctor one needs to understand the ORIGINAL meaning of the word “witch”. The word “witch” did not exist prior to 1486 from Heinrich Kramer and his book Malleus Maleficarum . Heinrich Kramer created the word “witch” which means: “the wicked whom follow Satan”. The word “witch” was a slang word created to give one simple word to lump together under one label, every one that was “evil” or in other words, a “witch” was any one of the following: Catholics, Christian Enochains, Alchemists, Coptic Christians, Gnostic Christians, Jews, Rabbis, Lutherans, Friars, Hebrew Prophets, Persian Magi, Celtic Druids/Magicians, Medical Doctors, Mid-Wives, Dreamers, Visionaries, Seers, Revalators, Soothsayers, Prostitutes, women with red hair, men with red beards, children with green eyes, every one who knew how to swim, Herbalists, and Wizards.

To technically be a witch one must be born with green eyes, have red hair, and be a female who had sex, was raped, gave birth to a daughter instead of a son, and be any religion other than Puritan. Puts a new perspective on being a witch when you actually read Kramer’s infamous “Witch’s Hammer” doesn’t it?

Did you know that the words “witch”, “witchcraft”, and “sorcery” were NOT in the Bible prior to 1611? They were added to the King James Version, to replace the words: “herbalist”, “doctor”, “physician”, “medicine”, “mid-wife”, and “healer”. Why? Because it was a trend in the 1600′s to believe that sickness was a punishment from God and medical doctors who cured illnesses were doing Satan’s work by removing God’s punishment from the wicked, and therefor were guilty of witchcraft and so the Bible was ordered to be re-written to reflect this.

The word “witch” is German and means “one who consorts with devils/demons/Satan”. The word “witchcraft” is also German and means “removes disease”. The word “witch doctor” is Scottish and means “one who undoes the evil of witches”. It was not until 1953, the the word “witch” come to mean ANYTHING other than this. There are many neo-Pagan Witches today who proudly brag that thier’s is the oldest religion and that calling one-self a witch is a good thing. I pity these poor delusional idiots and their blatantly stupidity and total lack of historical knowledge. Witch is not a good word. It NEVER was. It NEVER was a religion. It NEVER was a title worn proudly by women. It is a derogatory Christian term, which always did, always has, still does, and always will mean: “Satan worshiper”. To proudly call one-self a witch is to proudly call one-self a Satan Worshiper, for that is what the word means.

Because the term “Witch Doctor” has come to have a derogatory meaning in some regions, many modern practitioners have adopted the term “Conjure Doctor” or “Root Doctor” instead, in order to make themselves sound politically correct.

Contrary to popular myth, witch doctors did not originate in Africa (or any other indigenous tribal region), but rather originated in Medieval Europe where it was first used by Scottish alchemists as a way to drive witches out of the villages. They often use wax dolls, called hoodoo dollies, stuck with sewing pins to send hexes back upon the witches, than would search the area until they found someone with boils and accused that person of witchcraft, citing that the boils had been caused by the pins in the wax doll. Hoodoo dollies have been mentioned in Scottish history dating to BC times.

The term witch doctor was not used in relation to African tribes until the late 1800′s. And the use of hoodoo dolls stuck with pins, was introduced to Vodun by Scottish Witch Doctors in the late 1700′s. The plantation slaves adopted the use of these dolls into their religious practices, and thus the dolls became known as “Voodoo Dolls”, however while in Scottish Witch Doctoring the dolls are used to cause harm, in Vodun they were used instead as a way to cure sickness and disease.

I am myself both Native American (Kickapoo) and Scottish, and follow the traditions of my grandmothers. A tradition passed down, in writing in a 1400′s Bible brought here from Scotland and passed down in my family these 600 years. A tradition that comes 100% exclusivity from my family, which has never been south of Maine, and has never even seen an African American let alone talk to one. Lucky Mojo is filling your head with fairy tales. Stop being lazy and do your research. Any one who does even a minute bit of research will find the huge error of cat’s teachings. The problem with research is folks is lazy, and only turn to Google, but Honey all you will find online if cat’s teachings, quoted and requoted over and over again. Every site out there toughting the “history” of hoodoo, always references Luck Mojo as their source. Every one of them. Lucky Mojo is not a source, it’s a store that tells you what you want to hear to get you to buy their products. There is not an once of historical evidence to back up any of cat’s “so-called facts”.  If you tried to back up your case in court, using just what you find on Lucky Mojo, your evidence would be inadmissible and kicked out as hear-say. Try going to museums and historical societies, find yourself some REAL history about Hoodoo – you’ll be floored by what you find, and don’t be surprised if you find yourself feeling hurt, betrayed, and lied to by your beloved cat of Lucky Mojo.

I really wish people would actually research REAL history and actual ancient documents, instead of running around quoting the delusions of cat, Hyatt, and Lucky Mojo like they were gospel truth.

Hoodoo is a Scottish word dating back to the 300′s and means “haunted” or “supernatural” or “magic”. Vodun is an African religion, dating back over 10,000 years BC, and involved worshiping Dambala-Wedo (The One God) and his servants the Lwa (The Spirit Messengers of God or The Lesser Gods). Vodun is the oldest know recorded religion and pre-dates the Genesis story of the 7-Day Creation, by more than 4,000 years. Voodoo was created when Scottish Hoodoo Witch Doctors taught the African slaves Celtic Magic arts, the same time while Christian preachers (mostly Catholic) were trying to convert the slaves to Catholicism. The word Voodoo (American/Haitian) was the combining of the words Hoodoo (Scottish) and Vodun (African). Voodoo takes the Vodun religion, adds Scottish Hoodoo Witch Doctor magic, and than throws in Catholic saints, prayers, and altars.

Hoodoo and Voodoo are nearly identical, the basic difference is Hoodoo focuses on Scottish magic with a little bit of African religion mixed in, while Voodoo focuses on African religion with a little bit of Scottish magic mixed in.

Scottish Magic (aka Hoodoo) is taking a faith powered prayer (spell) and empowering it even more (making it stronger) by attracting certain energies with the use of colors, herbs, incense, crystals, and other items. It is done with few tools and focuses largely on use of poppets, dollies, bags, and pillows or in other words, various forms of gris-gris. This requires many years of studying the energetic properties of colors, herbs, etc. in order to know which colors and herbs attract with energies and is a tradition passed down by word of mouth from grandmother to granddaughter. It is almost exclusivly practiced by women, however in recent years men have been learning the art of hoodoo as well.

Thanks to the internet having almost no accurate information on the history of hoodoo at all (Lucky Mojo controls nearly every hoodoo site out there and very little of their information is even remotely accurate, and what few sites are not owned by Lucky Mojo are owned by the students of it’s school, so are still teaching inaccurate crap as gospel truth.) You want to know about REAL hoodoo – go to the familys that have passed down the tradition for centuries. Don’t go to the internet, because accurate info is not there.

It’s like the Warlock by translation means: “oath breaker” or “one who tells lies” – it has NOTHING to do with witchcraft AT ALL! It never did prior to the 1920′s! Wiccans like to say it is what witches called a witch whom ratted out their coven. That is pure Silver Ravenwolf made-up-fantasy-fictional-history-of-witchcraft crap! It was used by Christians to describe any one who told a lie in court.

Remember hoodoo is a Scottish word. Hoodoo by translation means “haunted, paranormal, or supernatural”. It dates back to 300AD and was used by the Picts of Scotland. The word “witch doctor” by translation means: “hunter of witches or one who drives out witches”. African Vodun was introduced to America in the 1700s. Scottish women taught their house slaves hoodoo poppet magic at the same time Catholic priests were teaching the house slaves about Jesus, Mary, and Saints. The end result was the slaves combined the words hoodoo and vodun to get voodoo. And yet, you hear practitioners today telling you that hoodoo is a “new word” created in the 1800s in New Orleans? How do they explain “hoodoo mountain”, “hoodoo gorge”, “hoodoo rock” and the hundreds of other places in Wales and Scotland, which have used those names close to 2,000 years? Today you hear people talk about hoodoo and witch doctors as though they originated in Africa, and neither hoodoo nor witch doctors were ever in Africa at all – both originated from Scotland!.

How do I know all this? I’ll tell you. Both of my grandmothers were witches, I was taught by them. We are Scottish Travelers, we can trace our genealogy to the 1200s, with hoodoo witches and witch doctors all along the way. I am a Princess of The Royal Highland Clan, I am the granddaughter of the first “Traveler King” born in the Americas (he was born in Canada). He married a Kickapoo (Native American Indian) “weather witch” (rain woman/shaman). Our family is steeped in over 500 years of witchcraft passed down from both my Scottish side and my Native American side. I myself have been practicing hoodoo magic arts since 1978. I view witchcraft as a CAREER not a RELIGION. I am a professional/practicing/career hoodoo witchdoctor (Scottish not African hoodoo – they are different) and psychic reader. Spellcraft and altar work is my full time career. I don’t have a “regular” job, this IS my job. I work spells, altar work, do prayer requests, card readings, channleings, and divination for clients. I’ve never meet an African/African-American, and it’s very unlikely any one in my family ever has, because for close on to 700 years we have lived in the far North were the population is 99.9% white and most of the .01% in Native American or Romi Gypsy. Until I discovered the internet (rather recently) I had no idea that the world of African Hoodoo, voodoo, and Vodun even existed. I had never heard of it before.

Now granted, I’m not saying New Orleans Hoodoo is wrong. I’m simply saying that it is a tradition borrowed from the Welsh, Scottish and German land owners, which the slaves blended into their religious practices. It is wrong to say that Hoodoo originated in Africa when it did not, it originated in Scotland. New Orleans Hoodoo is a new form of magic art, derived from blending other magic arts together. It is folly to say that the only way to understand it is to get to know an African American. Heck, they barely understand it themselves! They are only passing down what their grannies taught them about what their Scottish slave owners taught them! You REALLY want to understand Hoodoo – go to the taproot source: head to Scotland. All those little “hidden mysteries” that African Americas tell you “no one understands” about Hoodoo, will become glaringly clear when you talk to a real Hoodoo Practitioner of the Scottish Traveller Gypsy clans.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

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Going through the piles of questions – answers coming soon….

I have 2 weeks off from college so I figured I might as well work on this huge back log of questions needing answering.. I’ve sorted through the messages, comments, and emails you’ve all sent me over the past few years (I’m sorry, but 20,000+ questions do take several years to sift through and I’m no where’s near done yet, so if I haven’t yet answered your question, it’s because I just have not gotten that far into the pile of questions yet.)

Anyways, I’ve sifted out several of the RV related questions, and found 812 of them to answer, so that’s what I’ll be doing this week, unless something else comes up.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

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Stop the Hate – My Life as a Scottish Traveller Gypsy (exploration #4 for SMCC ENGL100)

Wendy C Allen                                                                                                          

Dan Clarke

ENGL 100-15

Exploration #4

April 4, 2012

Stop the Hate

Bullies should be banned. Bullies. Bigots. Racists. Trolls. Self righteous arrogant bastards. Religious pomposity. For me those words are interchangeable. Bullies, vandalism, and hate crimes have been a part of my life for several years now. There are some who say to me: well, just avoid these people. Don’t go anywhere, where you’ll run into them. The problem with that theory is I had agoraphobia for 27 years, so, it’s not like I ever went anywhere outside of my house and garden. I had a bit more freedom than most folks with agoraphobia, because I could at least step outside of my room and even outside of my house, and I had a garden I could putter around in. I did not leave my yard, which being in a swamp, in a forest, on the coast of Maine, is somewhat difficult to get to, so the only way for me to have any contact with anyone, on any level, period, was if they trespassed onto my land, invaded my privacy, and intrusively initiated contact with me. You really had to be determined if you wanted to try to have face to face contact with me.

In spite of my never leaving my yard, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to talk with dozens of members of dozens of religions, on their reasons why they hate, loath, and protest against women ministers, witches, and Gypsies. It’s easy to have access to these people when they are protesting in your driveway, after all. One common rumor on the mouths of these protesters was that I started my own religion. I didn’t. It’s not like I ever went out and said “this is my new religion and I’m going to call it…” Nothing like that ever happened. The rumor of my starting a new religion was propagated in 1991 by Mormon Bishop Paul Morgan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He found out I was by race a Gypsy, and by career a psychic fortune teller. Federal law requires all legally operating, tax paying psychics to be ordained ministers, because psychic readings are classified by the IRS as a form of pastoral counselling or spiritual advising. Thus I had to become an ordained minister in order to legally do my job. My overreacting Bishop blew the whole thing out of proportion from there. He ran around jumping to conclusions, spreading false rumors and lies about me, and before I knew it I had reporters in my yard asking questions and snapping pictures, with me utterly clueless as to what the heck they were talking about. Me? Start a religion? I did? When? Where? How? What the heck are you talking about? By 2001 there were several local church groups marching around my lawn. *sigh* Well, at least I can say my life has been eventful.

It just seemed like there was always someone new joining the group, bringing with them, a whole new set of rumors. As the years progressed, so did the rumors, which eventually included such ludicrous things as casting death spells (and being accused of having caused nearly every death in the Saco Bay area), sacrificing animals, and sending demons out “to get” people. By 2007 people throughout quite a large section of York County had begun to call me “The Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach”. Perhaps they had been calling me this earlier. I do not know, as it was the sudden lack of a house, in 2006, which inspired my wandering around the streets. No house to putter around in, I started puttering around in a progressively larger area, thus the non-protesting locals began to come into actual physical contact with me for the first time. In their words, “The crazy demon consorting, death-spell casting, animal sacrificing, hermit-witch had emerged from her lair.” I already knew the religion crazy protesters thought these things of me, but I thought they were just delusional fundamentalists; I was unaware that they had convinced others to believe their hateful delusions. I’d walk down the sidewalk and people would all cross the street. Mothers would grab their children while saying: “I don’t look at her. It’s that evil gypsy witch. She’ll curse you with a death spell. Give you the evil eye!” I found this both alarming and amusing. Was this the 21st century or the 16th century? I mean, I know we are only a few miles from Salem but still…  

It was more than words and stares however. A few of the more radical Christians, egged on by Old Orchard Beach town manager and fundamentalist Mormon high priest, Jim Thomas, began to proclaim it was their “God given duty to punish” me for my “sins”, exorcise my demons, and “drive out this evil that lives among us”. The first drive by shooting occurred in 2001, it was one of the first act of physical violence, and it would be far from the last. The ensuing hate crimes and acts of vandalism would become a daily event for the next 9 years.

You remember that hysterical Mormon Bishop of 1991, the one who started all of this with his outlandish rumors of my founding a new and in his words “anti-Mormon apostate religion”? Over the years he riled up more Bishops, a total of 16 Bishops altogether, several high priests, and a few stake presidents. He went so far as to contact the Prophet in Salt Lake City and request my excommunication. During those 9 years, just under 400 separate individual Mormon church members have shown up in my yard to tell me they hated me and my “new religion”.

On October 18, 2006, just a few months after Hurricane Katrina took my house, a mob of crazed religious fanatics burned down its replacement. I was asleep inside. I used to have hair down to my knees. The firemen said I was lucky to be alive. I had no money to rebuild yet again, and have been homeless living in first a tent, than a car, and now a motorhome on the now empty lot these past 6 years.

The protests reached their height in 2010, when in April, two of my cats were killed and their heads left in the driveway, and the following May my car was cut in half. And they were calling me crazy? A broken hip followed shortly after, not long followed by a broken wrist. The fear and hysteria of my being by race “a gypsy” and by career a “psychic” clearly had gone beyond the point of lunacy. Police were called in to assist.

The question remained however: what the heck were these people getting so upset about? Why were they here? And where the hell were they coming up with their wild accusations? Demons? Animal sacrifice? Founding new religions? What the hell? Clearly these people knew nothing about me, for everything they said about me was wrong, wrong, wrong. I was a mystery to them. My cultural dress marked me as outlandish in their eyes. My never setting foot in public, made them suspect I was doing foul deeds. My Autism and desperately slurred speech made my ability to communicate difficult, and easy to misinterpret. Over the years, it became clear to me that everything these people did and said was based on one thing and one thing only: fear of the unknown. Though my family had lived on this land since 1548, and were even the founders of this town, I myself, because of my agoraphobia, was unseen and unknown, and therefore, a thing to be feared.

It had become clear to me that there was only one way this madness of hate and fear was going to end. In 2010, I did something I had never done before: I let them in, invited them to see for themselves the “church” they claimed I ran. The protesting died down after 2010, when for the first time, people were allowed to see for themselves, just exactly what it was they were protesting against. What they saw, stunned and baffled them. I don’t know what they expected to see, but clearly a 3 foot wide by 5 foot long by 6 foot high garden shed, painted white, with a 10 foot wooden cross standing in front of it, was not what they expected. Nor did they expect to see that my “animal sacrificing alter” (as they called it) was nothing more than a moss covered rotted tree stump, which I used for a chair. The animals they claimed had been sacrificed, were alive and well, and as baffled to see the strangers, as these trespassers were to see them. These home invading intruders, likewise did not expect to see “the tent”, an 8×6 tarp under which I had lived for 6 years though 5 hurricanes and 3 blizzards, with nothing more than a sleeping bag for protection. They were flabbergasted.

“This is it?” asked one.

“You call this a church?” asked another.

“No. I don’t.” I said. “I never did. You’re the only ones saying I’ve got a church out here. You are the ones saying I started a religion. Not me. You are the ones saying all of it. I have Autism. I don’t talk. I never said a word.”

“Where’s your congregation?”

“What congregation?”

“Where’s do you hold your meetings?”

“What meetings?”

“What do you do here?”

“I grow roses. I feed the birds. I pray for people. I’ll pray for you. I light candles and hang their prayer requests on the wall in the shed. I read cards for people, I lay them out on that tree stump. This is where I do my writing. It’s a meditation garden. In 31 years I have written 30+ books, 200+ short stories, 2,000+ articles, 5,000+ sermons, a few comic books, and a few dozen plays. This is where I do all of that. I’m a full time professional writer. I’m a Scottish Traveler Spiritual Advisor, what you would call a Gypsy Fortune Teller. This is where I do everything. This is my home. This is where I live. This is where I do my readings for folks, this is where I get my writing done. That there, that is the tent I have lived in for the past 6 years, since you people burned down the house I was rebuilding after the flood took the first one. There is no church, there is no religion, there is no congregation, it’s just me and my cats, in a tent, in a rose garden in the swamp, doing a heck of a lot of writing.  Do you have any idea what you have done? You burned down my house, you killed my cats, you chopped up my car, you broke my hip, and for what? Because you listened to some fantasy prone jackass Bishop who didn’t have his head screwed on straight, and had nothing better to do than run around flapping his mouth off and making up nasty rumors about me some 20 odd years ago! You never stopped to think the man was insane and lying to you. No. Of course not. He was a man of God. You hung on his every word. I’ve never bothered any of you, heck I don’t even know most of you. I’ve spent my entire life struggling with agoraphobia, I haven’t even set foot outside of this garden in 27 years! I only started wandering around in public in 2006, after the fire, which you started. Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you judge me. How dare you call me evil. You want to see evil? Take a good long look in the mirror.”

They still go out of their way to cross paths with me, so that they can remind me how much they hate me, hate my books, hate my life, hate my race, hate my culture, hate everything about me, but at least, they have stopped accusing me of running a church or having founded a new religion, which seems to have ended the violence. But still, it begs the question: What is their friggin problem? Why did they do this? I did find out, when some people, now realizing the error of their huge misjudgements about who I am and what I do, have come to me with the sheepish question: “I’ve got to ask you, if you didn’t start a new religion and you are not running a church, why the heck did you become an ordained minister. It makes no sense to me. You don’t use it? Why?” Really? Seriously? Is that what this was about? All of this because I am a female and an ordained minister? Is there really that much hatred for female ministers? Why become a legally ordained minister? The keyword here is legal, something I noted was not in the question asked.  It is illegal to be a life coach, a reiki master, practitioner of the magic arts, a lightworker, a spirit channeler, a medium, a spirit healer, a witch doctor, a spell caster, a practicing witch, a shaman, or a psychic reader, without a legal ordination as a minister. Silly, and probably unlikely to be enforced, but the law does exist. These are federal IRS laws used to regulate income taxes, and some states have additional laws, which states that no pastor, preacher, bishop, priest, psychic, life coach, witch, etc can provide family, couples, or marriage counseling (this includes prayers and card readings) unless he holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. In short, the law sucks, but it is what it is, and one must obey. I am a Hoodoo Hedgewalker. Fourteenth century Scottish/Welsh Hoodoo, a career, is not to be confused with the 18th century religion African Hoodoo (now known as New Orleans Voodoo). While one was based on the other, they are not the same thing. Hoodoo is a Scottish word meaning “spirit” or “ghost”. Hoodooed, means “haunted”. “The Hedge of Life” refers to the misty plains of twilight which separates the spirit world from the physical world. A Hedgewalker, is a person who communicates with the spirit world on behalf of someone from the physical world. In other words a Hoodoo Hedgewalker is a psychic medium or shaman, who communicates with angels, faeries, and the spirit of dead loved ones. By race I am a Scottish Traveller, aka a Gypsy. While I am correctly called a Scottish Hoodoo Hedgewalker, most people refer to me by the more common slang term of Gypsy Fortune Teller. For us, this is not a religion, it is, quite simply, a way of life. But in today’s world there exist laws regarding what is and is not religious practice, and who can and can not lead such practices. The law considers me to be the leader of a religious movement, and a spiritual advisor, and as such, requires me to become a legally ordained minister, with a legally recognized church, even though by religion, I am a Mormon and am not running a church of any sort at all.   

I suppose in a way, them burning down my house was a good thing, because it got my off my land and out into the world, and I am now a college student. If I still had a house, I’d probably still be agoraphobic. It’s been 6 years and, today you’d never know I had agoraphobia; but this doesn’t change the fact that what these people did was wrong, mean, hateful, bigoted, and completely uncalled for. Interestingly enough, as a result of all of this, the FBI got involved, town manager Jim Thomas was found to have embezzled $3million in town funds, had placed his close buddies as law enforcement so as to keep hidden what he was doing, and had used Bishop Morgan’s hysterical rumors as a way to draw the town’s attention away from the fact that funds were fast disappearing. Old Orchard Beach, recently saw a huge overthrow in leadership as the entire town counsel and police force were fired and replaced. Bishop Morgan, has since been removed from the church and sent to a mental hospital; it seems I was not the only person he had started rumors about, and that he was getting his information “from demons”. And so, in the end I lost my home, my pets, my car, my privacy, and my health, because one man was clinically insane and another was criminally greedy, and both were in positions of church leadership and able to use their charismatic personalities to stir their congregations into a frenzy. 

What possessed people to listen to these two men, and act violently on their orders, I do not know. I remain to this day clueless and confused as to what set these people off or how they felt justified in their actions. In any case, these two men were bullies and they instigated what can only be described as “an angry mob”, and thus I come to the conclusion that bullies must be banned. Racism must be stopped. Bigotry must be ended. These sorts of things must cease before anyone else gets hurt.

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The People of the Mists: A Short History of Scottish Traveller Gypsies, And How I Came to be Known as the Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach Essay #1 for SMCC ENGL100 Spring 2012

Here is essay #1 for class:

Wendy C Allen                                                                                                          
Dan Clarke
ENGL 100-15
Essay #1
Inspired by Explorations #1 & #3
March 26, 2012

The People of the Mists:

A Short History of Scottish Traveller Gypsies,

And How I Came to be Known as the Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach

*It is important to note that what is said here, is not a history of all Scottish Traveller Gypsies on a whole, but rather the history, simply of one Clan (family) within the race, as much as is known through family records, diaries, and verbal traditions. The accuracy of the words found within these documents and traditions is unknown. The documents were written between 1611 and 1948. The later events which take place in Old Orchard Beach from 1811 onward, are very well documented and are known from family records, newspaper clippings, court records, photographs, postcards, and documents found at both the Town Hall and the Old Orchard Beach Historical Society. Events taking place after 1975, are personal first hand witness accounts of my own life. This essay is written in response to reader comments of two prior articles I had written: “Dark Inspirations” and “Hidden in the Shadows”.  Specifically this essay seeks to answer the following questions: “Could you give the reader a bit more about who you are and how you ended up in Old Orchard Beach?” (in reference to “Dark Inspirations”) and “How might you bring yourself into this piece more, either as a character or narrator or both? Do you have any experiance with this group? If so, what is it?” (in reference to “Hidden in the Shadows”).

They are a strange people the Scottish Travelers. Their origins are a mystery, their history shaded and sketchy, and their customs seen as outlandish and other worldly. Ceàrdannan is their native name, spoken in their native tongue; it means “The Craftsmen” or “The Tinkers” in English translation, (a name they receive due to their many crafting traditions including tin smithing, weaving cloth, and carving bright colored wagons) though most folks tend to call them The Indigenous Highland Travellers of Scotland or The Scottish Traveller Gypsies. While many consider them to be Celtic, they were in fact discovered by the Celts. Nationalities between family groups (known as Clans) varies, with some clans claiming Romanian or Indian descent, and others claiming German or Egyptian descent. The common thread is that each clan makes the same claim of Pict descent. The theory thus being that the Travellers descended from the Picts, and picked up mixed nationality marriages along their travels. Unfortunately, these histories come to us after being passed down for centuries via word of mouth. Very little written documentation exists regarding Travellers, or rather, very little written by the Travellers themselves. Much of what exists is hate-filled propaganda written by Christian witch hunters of the 16th century and Nazi soldiers of the 20th century; these documents being of course written to promote hate and to document the massive, tens of thousands of Gypsies who were killed during these two devastating “racial cleansings”.

My own family is unique among Travellers, in that, detailed documents were written and passed down for generations. I am today, in possession of what Christians refer to as “the family Bible”, or what Pagans call “a Witch’s Grimoire”. The Bible itself it a rare item. Difficult to carry due to its massive size, this giant hand tooled, hand illustrated, leather bound volume contains testament books and scriptural verses not found in currently published editions of the Bible. Within its pages, however, lie more than curiosities for the Bible scholar. Careful turning of pages reveals herbs, flowers, feathers, and four-leaf clovers pressed between its brittle yellow pages, along with letters, notes, spells, prayers, recipes, and at the very heart of the book, written on its pages a list of names, dates, births, deaths, and marriages dating back for centuries.

Even with written documents, our family’s exact origins are sketchy. Older traditions come from 19th century writings, romanticizing the past, and are questionable as to their accuracy. Putting together the bits and pieces of both written and oral information I was able to assemble a timeline of sorts. While all 300+ living members of the Clan call themselves Scottish, tradition suggests that the earliest roots of our Clan, descended not from Scotland, but rather, from North Asian Russia, specifically to the Shaman of Siberia or perhaps Alaska which was still connected to Russia, all those many centuries ago. There is the suggestion that they may have migrated to Siberia from Mongolia, due to our current families physical appearance, as well as magical arts traditions which have a Mongolian “flair” to them. Both the Siberian and Mongolian connections, however, appear to be little more than romantic speculation.

While the exact place origin is a guess at best, the one fact which remains clear and consistent, regardless of time or place, is that our family has remained throughout the centuries within only one, single, solitary career: religion or rather a form of witchcraft. Often the words “priest” and “priestess”, are used to describe family members throughout the centuries, as well as the words: “holy woman”, “witch”, “witch doctor”, “weather witch”, “shaman”, and “healer”. In the earliest mentions, these titles seem to be exclusive to female members, but beginning in the 1920’s males are also seen with these titles. The earliest ones appeared to have been Shaman or Holy People, who wandered from village to village, performing sacred “magic” rites (blessings, curses, and communications with spirits), having no true home and simply living with whomever had requested their services that week. It is this wandering nature and the mention of place names from all reaches of the globe, from North America to Europe to China to Australia, which makes tracing my family’s exact place of origin, nearly impossible. The travelling tradition appears to run deep in our blood, dating at least as far back as the 7th century.

These Shaman eventually arrived in Scandinavia, though both the date of arrival and the exact country is unknown, where they seemed to have settled for a brief period and married into the local families. From here the Shaman tradition mixes with the Norse tradition, and was brought to, what is now, Scotland via the Viking voyages. In Scotland, the already mixed marriages mixed even farther, this time with the Picts. Though not native themselves, the Picts were there before the Roman Celts, and presumed to be natives, thus the current name: The Indigenous Highlanders, or just The Scottish Highlanders. Highlanders remain, to this day, a unique and somewhat mysterious part of Scotland’s cultural landscape. While in Scotland, Hoodoo and Witchcraft are picked up and become the grounding force of all following religious practices. My family’s history does not end here, however, because though Scotland remains their home for apparently 3 or 4 centuries, they do eventually take to the nomadic lifestyle once again.

Our history becomes clearer in the 1400’s, though still in scattered bits and pieces and heavy with speculation. What is known, is that they were landowners, lords, rulers, aristocrates, considered to be a form of royalty among the Scottish natives, and living in a vast stone fortress, the remains of which still stands today in what is now Kent, England. There was a war or invasion, caused by what, is unknown. What is known it that several families/Clans were forced out of their homes, off their land, and marched out of Scotland.

Vowing never again allow any man to steal their homes from them, they declared the entire world as their home, and refused to ever again settle down. They became known from that point on as The Tinkers or Scottish Travellers. Some set out on foot, others set out in wagons, a few took to the sea. In the early years, most wandered about in Germany, resulting in horrendous tales of terror of bands of brightly colored pipers using witchcraft and sorcery to enchant everything from rats to children. Countless stories abound through Germany, of ‘The People of the Mists” and their “Pied Pipers”, dressed in outlandish robes of bright colored striped cloth (they knew of no other way to describe kilts and plaids), marching through their streets while playing “magic pipes” (and likewise knew not what to call bagpipes). The most famous of these tales about the German “invasion” by the Scottish Travellers, was of course “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and its tale of being sent a gypsy curse of a plague of rats, only to have a bright colored piper gypsy remove the curse, than bring a worse curse by kidnapping the children. Few people are aware of the fact that Robert Brownings poem was based on actual events.

By the late 1500’s the German witch hunts had started, and 20,000 “witches”, most of them Gypsies, were tortured to death, often ending with being drawn and quartered. The Scottish Travelers fled Germany and went into Romania (from where the common, yet inaccurate, title of “Rom”, “Romany”, or “Romi” comes). What happened between Romania in the 1500s and Canada in the 1800s, is unknown, with the only fact being that at some point the Scottish Travellers ended up in France and had a major falling out with the French, so bad, that the Travellers destroyed all “memory” of their connections to the French, and maintains a bitter feud with and hatred for, any French person whose paths they cross.

It is not until the 1700’s that the details of our family history, become clearly documented. The family today is a blending of several Clan, most predominantly the Rickers of Portland, Maine and the Atwaters of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Rickers married into the Googins and Lewis families in the early 1800s, and married into the Atwater Clan in 1973. It is in Maine and Canada, through connections to the Jacob Cochran and Joseph Smith Sr (father of the founder of Mormonism) of Saco, Maine, that the Travellers picked up Christianity or rather more specifically Cochranite worship, later renamed Mormonism by Smith’s son, in the early 1830s.

The Googins arrived in Saco Bay in 1648, where they settled a 300 acre plot of land on what is now 128 – 152 Portland Avenue in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Over the years the land was sub-divided and given to children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Today all that remains still owned by the original family is the quarter acre lot at 146 Portland Avenue, where lives the Clan’s current Shaman/Holy Woman, Miss Kitten the EelKat, Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach and Queen of the Gypsies, also known as Maine’s infamous Crazy Homeless Cat Woman, with her ever growing army of rescued cats (84 cats at its height, though only 16 cats today.).

In about 1811 the Ricker Clan (owners of the ancient Bible) of Portland, Maine, married into the Googins, Lewis, and Allen Clans of Portland, then moved to a nearby bay. George Ricker, declared himself  “ruler” (as well as mayor, road commissioner, and fire chief) of this new land, which he named “The Orchard by the Sea”. In 1821, it was renamed The Town on the Old Orchard Beach, and the Travellers set out to do what they did best: set up a carnival, only this time a permanent one known as The Palace Playland. To celebrate the founding of his new Kingdom (town) he gave his wife Rose Ricker a rosebush, which, now, being at least 191 years old, is still alive and growing, standing at 13 feet tall.  Their daughter Helen Ricker went on to run the school board, the firefighters wives society, and founded nearly every women’s group active in Old Orchard between the 1920s through the 1980s. During that time she also maintained a hobby of collecting comic books, crocheting, obsessing over Liberace, and casting spells and curses on everyone in sight.

The Rickers ran the town, which some nicknamed “The Dynasty of Old Orchard Beach”, on every level. Every town official, public works officer, school board member, police officer, fireman, and business owner was a Ricker, a Googins, an Allen, a Lewis, or a cousin of one of the above. Tourists were the income and the fairgrounds were massive, spanning for nearly 5 miles along the beachfront. The Ricker Dynasty came to a horrific end during the Burning of the White Way or the Second Great Fire of Old Orchard Beach in 1963 (the first was in 1907) which took out every ride, shop, and motel along the shore. This event came on the heels of the arrival of a brutal, violent, scam artist, polygamist, extreme Fundamentalist Mormon crime family: The Royal Highland Atwater Clan. When one thinks of Gypsies, most think of Cher’s “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves” along side of news reports of terrorist crime families. For most Travellers this image is far from the truth, but for the Atwater Clan, this was a perfect image of who they were. The Atwaters brought with them honky tonks, bar rooms, drug dealers, prostitutes, pickpockets, petty thieves, fist fights, knife fights, and gunfights in the town square.

In 1968, feed up with the Ricker Dynasty, appalled by the Atwater arrogance and lack of moral decency, and recovering from one of the largest fires in Maine history, the townspeople gathered together in arms, and with the help of several shotgun armed State Police officers, drove the Gypsies and Travellers out of Old Orchard Beach at gunpoint. Residents today, old enough to remember the march, are quick to retell the nightmare tale of “The day the Gypsies were run out of town”, with its parade of over 300 cars, trucks, vans, jeeps, buses, trailers, wagons, and motorhomes escorted by police officers from every town in York County. They were marched to the New Hampshire border, where they were met by New Hampshire police who in turn marched them straight through to Vermont. The march continued, from state to state, until they arrived in Utah, the first state to not greet them at the border with an army of rifle toting patrolmen. The Atwaters settled in Ogden Utah, where they remain to this day.

Back in Old Orchard, the Rickers resigned their offices, and most of the family relocated back to Portland, in fact only one remained in Old Orchard Beach: the now elderly daughter of George Ricker, Helen Ricker-Allen and her son Kenneth Ricker-Allen with his wife Jeannie Atwater and their daughter Wendy. Newcomer King Weinstein took possession of the abandoned lands, plowed under the apple orchards, and began building the dozens of condominiums which now dot the beachfront.

When Grammy Helen died in 1983, I inherited her land, her grandmother’s rosebush, her Liberace records, her comic books (which set a Guinness Book Record, for containing the largest and most complete run of Disney comic books), the family Bible/Grimoire, and her title: Queen of the Gypsies, Holy Woman, Witch Doctor, Fortune Teller, and caster of spells. The Travellers are a highly religious people, part Christian (predominantly Mormon), part Pagan (Welsh Faery Faith aka Traditional Witchcraft and Scottish Hoodoo aka European Voodoo); they take with them in their travels, portable shrines to Jesus and The Little People and devoutly seek the services of their clan’s Holy Woman, a Hoodoo Witch Doctor. The Gypsy Holy Woman is one of the most glamorized, yet least understood traditions, of the Scottish Traveller Clans (Gypsy Fortune Teller, being the derogatory slang term commonly used by outsiders). The Holy Woman, communicate with the “Little People” (Faeries, Goblins, Leprechauns, etc). She is the clan member seen most often by outsiders, often she is the only clan-member non-Gypsies will ever encounter, due to her setting up a shop in town to read cards, tell fortunes, heal the sick, cast out demons, and make amulets to protect homes from evil spirits. This was a sacred tradition passed down from grandmother to granddaughter and the secrets of the craft closely guarded, with no one else in the clan knowing how she does what she does. The clan’s Holy Woman is considered to be the messenger between the gods and the mortals; she would be picked for training at an early age (3 or 4) based on her natural ability to see the Little People. As an ordained minister, counsellor, advisor, exorcist, spellcaster, card reader, and officiant of weddings and funerals, she would be one of the few  clan members knowing how to read and write, a result of a strict education in a Bible Seminaries, but not in a school. Emphasis of the Holy Woman’s education lay in Bible Studies and Christian Theology, again as with the rest of the clan’s children, her education is also often devoid of mathematics and sciences.

Of the many hundreds of members in my family, only a handful have been to school, fewer have attended high school, less than a dozen graduated, I am the first and one of only 2 non-schooled members to receive a GED, and I am one of only 2 to attend college. Though I did not go to school, I did attend 12 years of Bible Seminary instead. I am an ordained minister, however, while my formal training was through a Calvinist Bible Seminary (no traditional schooling) and my informal training came from three grandparents: Grammy Helen, a Scottish Witch, Grammy Eva, a Native American/Kickapoo Shaman, and and Grandpa David Henry, a Nova Scotian/Scotch Seer, Revelator, Prophet, and Mormon High Priest Patriarch.

I am the current Spiritual Leader of the Scottish Travellers of Maine. I am a ChristoPagan. I believe in the teachings of Jesus as a way of life, yet question him as God himself or the son of God, and in fact question if God is God, or just one of many more intelligent beings who exist in a plane of existence we yet to understand. As a practitioner and minister of the Faerie Faith, I also believe in Faeries, Leprechauns, Fardarrigs, Red Caps, Pixies, Silkies, Merrows, Phookas, Boggles, etc. I am a professional Hedgewalker, also known as a Hedge Witch, or Hoodoo Witch Doctor. In other words, I’m a medium who channels spirits and walks through life standing on the hedge dividing the physical world from the spirit world. When someone wants to talk to god, angels, faeries, spirits, a dead loved one – they come to me and I carry the message across the hedge of the mortal plain into the spirit realm.  I also read cards, cast spells, read crystals, hang clooties, sew Hoodoo Dolls, remove hexes, cast out evil spirits, and perform exorcisms, blessings, weddings, and funerals. Because I do most of what I do during massive storms, blizzards, and hurricanes while standing on the beach, lashed by 70mph winds and 20’ tides, I am known to the locals as “The Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach”. Most of the local residents are terrified at my presence. when I walk too the beach, mothers grab their children, crying “Avert your eyes, don’t look at her, she’ll put a curse on you!”. There are some, so bold as to say it is my presence on the beach, which caused to storms. I simply laugh at them.

There are those who laugh at the thought of Faeries as a religious belief or that anyone in this day and age would take belief in Faeries seriously, or that Witches exist and Gypsy Magic is real, but Faerie Faith is in fact the ancient pre-Christian and pre-Celtic religion of the Pictish natives who inhabited the British Isles prior to the Celtic Invasion, and it, along with Witchcraft and Gypsy Black Magic Arts,  is the religion still practiced by my people. And, in spite of the laughter of many, thousands of people come to me, from all over the world, seeking my help, advice, and spiritual assistance. I am daily swamped with letters and emails from people in desperate situations, pleading for the removal of curses and the casting out of demons and evil spirits.

And that is the history, of my people, The Scottish Travellers, of my hometown, Old Orchard Beach, founded by my great-grandfather George Ricker, how I came to be a ChristoPagan Mormon, and how I came by the title of The Gypsy Sea Witch of Old Orchard Beach.

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