Hunglish.orgThe Hungarian word „boszorkány” comes from Turkish and means „injurious phantom.” A „witch” is defined as „a woman who has magical abilities.”
„Harry Potter,” „Bewitched” and other silly stories have made many people believe that witches don’t exist.
Funny trick, isn’t it? By writing about a topic in fiction, it causes people to believe that the topic is fiction.
If you thought witches were purely fictional, then you’re in for a treat: Witches do exist. In actuality, the practice of witchcraft (and the burning of witches) preceeds Christianity.
The Roman Catholic Church issued several decreees on witches, alternating between having them burned and denying that they exist.
The Hungarian word „boszorkány” comes from Turkish and means „injurious phantom.” A „witch” is defined as „a woman who has magical abilities.”
C’mon that’s too easy: *All* women have magical abilities.
According to Hungarian legend, you can recognise a witch during midnight mass on Christmas Eve. First, you make a little chair between the 13th and 24th of December from thirteen different kinds of wood – known as Luca’s Chair – and the suspected witch has to stand on it.
From 1520 for 1777, there were more than 2000 witch trials in Hungary, with the guilty mostly executed by burning.
An alternative to the Luca’s Chair is to hold a suspected witch underwater for a while; if she lives, she is a witch. This is my prefered method. Incidentally, this is the same method the US government uses to identify terrorists.
Wicca is now a registered religion in Hungary and has been since 1989 and the fall of communism.
Written by Scott Savoie