Re: The Stebbins family (Filler, 11-20-2012)
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:25 pm
I'm not sure about the healers part, but I do know that during those times 'witches' (a term that applies to both males and females) were those who used divination. The casting of bones or reading of some other object to see into the future or speak with the dead. They would speak in broad and general terms that ensured that whatever happened, they would be right. Once they started to gather a following during those times, it wasn't long before a cult was born.
The order to kill the witch or poisoner was an attempt to prevent this with grounds in Scripture itself (Deuteronomy 18:9-13 for example). The nations of Canaan during the first rise of Israel dabbled in such practices and it lead to worse things such as a building of a giant metal furnace where babies were thrown in as sacrifices to the spirits.
I hope that no one sees the Church or even the werewolf hunters as 'evil' in the story. Though they very well may be villains in the context of this story, they do what they do to protect themselves.
The order to kill the witch or poisoner was an attempt to prevent this with grounds in Scripture itself (Deuteronomy 18:9-13 for example). The nations of Canaan during the first rise of Israel dabbled in such practices and it lead to worse things such as a building of a giant metal furnace where babies were thrown in as sacrifices to the spirits.
I hope that no one sees the Church or even the werewolf hunters as 'evil' in the story. Though they very well may be villains in the context of this story, they do what they do to protect themselves.