Back Off the Witches

On Halloween night, a 186-year-old grave in Hillsboro, New Hampshire was dug up, leaving no trace of the deceased. A local police lieutenant suggested to the media that witches may have been involved. Since then, New Hampshire's Wiccan community has been up in brooms over this latest act of malicious stereotyping. And they have a point. Wiccans aren't some creepy cultists who steal dead bodies and sacrifice household pets. Theirs is a peaceful religion based on lighting candles, dressing like Stevie Nicks, and defending Anne Rice's sub-literate prose. According to the owner of Pachamama, Concord, New Hampshire's one-stop shop for all your metaphysical supplies, grave robbing is entirely against the Wiccan's creed. Satanists, she says, are the more likely culprit. Read the full story here.