You Can’t Visit Salem Without Including Some Witches
The new game show “Opportunity Knocks” premiers tonight on ABC, and an upcoming episode will feature a segment where contestants will have to pick “which Witch is a Witch”. Why? Because the traveling game show was shooting in Salem.
Laurie Cabot
“Laurie Cabot took the stage with three witch imposters during a taping of a new TV game show in Salem Saturday night. They billed the segment “Which Witch is a Witch?” An ABC TV crew comes to Salem close to Halloween and sets up a stage in the middle of the Witchcraft Heights neighborhood. Of course, there would be a witch question.”
Considering how (in)famous Laurie “official Witch of Salem” Cabot is in Salem, it was probably an easy question to answer. I can’t wait to see how the “ringers” were dressed. No doubt this particular episode will be airing sometime in October.
Speaking of Laurie Cabot, she is apparently fending off some controversy after unintentionally posting some alarmist information concerning the Large Hadron Collider. It seems her assistant was having problems with Google that day.
“I wanted people to be informed about the experiments and sadly what we ended up posting was a very one sided alarmist position which was not what I intended and Google was not our friend this day either with the links it provided to my assistant.”
Meanwhile Cabot’s tradition (”The Cabot Tradition”) has initiated author Christopher Penczak and Sully “lead singer of Godsmack” Erna into their priesthood. I don’t know if they have formally changed their names, but the site now lists them as “Christopher Cabot Penczak” and “Sully Cabot Erna”. So congratulations to both of them.
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I really love your blog. I find that I’ve come to read it almost daily! I even linked to it in my, er…modest blog.
http://graywitch.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the always interesting information.
I surfed the article links and ended up here…
http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/1999/godsmack_int.asp
Sully Rocks!!!
A “witch” who employs an “assistant” to do her research and who does the research by looking at Google and posting the topmost entry? And who then blames Google because the greatest number of hits was to a crackpot site that repeats the “tiny black holes” argument for shutting down the LHC?
Pardon me, but aren’t “witches” under the same obligation as non witches to be informed about and use common sense regarding the issues of the day? When will serious pagans stop pretending that this Laurie Cabot person is anything more than a poseur and a publicity seeker? I wish I could say I’m surprised that Penczak takes her seriously, but since I don’t take Penczak seriously either, I’m not.
Granted she had done a lot for the Wiccan/Pagan community with some legal maters. Like getting Wicca/Witchcraft recognized as a valid religon. But it has gone down since. People by into her and she feeds of the naivete of newcomers. Folks think getting a $100 tarot reading or a $30 spell kit from her is like the Holy Grail of Witchery.
It’s just embarrassing.
You know when I first looked at that photo, before reading the post, I thought it was Alice Cooper!
~Illisse