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The Witches Ball is to be held Saturday night, October 30th, at WOW Hall on the comer of 8th and Chamelton.
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we don’t acknowledge our own di
vinity we are driven crazy.”
Wiccans simply believe they are
personally divine. This scares a lot
of people who want to blame other
people for the world’s woes, Ciac
chi said. This religion is about
having a deep love for the Earth
and all living creatures as well as
taking complete responsibility for
our actions and consequences.
“It’s an awesome responsibility
[to] rely on yourself,” Ciacchi said.
Because die Witches’ Ball marks
the passage into the fall, and Au
tumn is the season of letting go,
participants will also get a chance
to release something from their
lives by writing it down on a piece
of paper. These writings will then
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be destroyed during the ritual,
thus creating a communal act of
sacrifice.
Though the night will also in
clude the sacrifice of a paper
mach6 mask of the three-headed
mythical character Dionysus, it’s
not real and is not about worship
ing the devil, Ciacchi emphasized.
To believe in the devil means
believing in two parts of reality —
good and evil.
“Wicca is not a dualistic reli
gion,” Ciacchi said. “We have a
more holistic belief system than
that. We all have equal responsi
bility for manifesting reality.”
She attributes the negative light
cast on her religion to misinterpre
tation and ignorance of the belief
system.
Wiccans also attribute con
scious life to nature and believe
that all living things have a soul.
Because of this belief in animism
and pantheism, Ciacchi said Wic
cans treat all animals fairly and
give all living things an equal
place on Earth. For this reason,
their after-life beliefs include rein
carnation that’s not based on kar
ma. If an individual is bad in this
lifetime, for instance, he or she is
not punished by coming back as a
snake, Ciacchi explained.
As lar as lilting into society,
Ciacchi and Perry are not "in the
broom closet,” like witches in
smaller, more conservative Oregon
towns. They don’t exactly fit into
mainstream society either. She
was once the victim of discrimina
tion because of her faith, when she
was denied a job offer because her
potential employer heard Ciac
chi’s greeting on her answering
machine that alluded to the fact.
“Even in a hippie culture like
Eugene,” she said, “people still as
sociate us with pointy hats and
noses.”
The Oct. 30 Witches’ Ball opens'
with the musical group Land of
the Blind, which plays lyrics with
the message of earth worship,
community and fun. Doors open
at 8:30 p.m. and admission is $6
$10 on a sliding scale. Children
aged 6-11 get in for half price and
those under 5 are free. The cos
tume contest winners will be an
nounced at 10:30 p.m. The ritual
of ecstasy and sacrifice will be per
formed at 10:45 and the Riveroots,
who play a blend of blues-based,
spiritual sound, will then play un
til the hail closes at 1 a.m.
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