The Ancient History of Witchcraft

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"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Caroline, and I'm here to tell you about Witchcraft. Thanks to archaeology, we're able to go back even further in time to paleolithic times, where they actually have found a cave with a drawing in itfrom I believe it was thirty thousand years ago. Which is quite a long time ago because it pretty much pre dates Christian religion. And in the cave, which is pretty interesting, is there were thirteen figures. There was a man who had antlers on, there was a pregnant female, and eleven people around them. Now what this translates to would be the God and the Goddess, and eleven followers, or a coven. And the Goddess is normally shown pregnant because she stands for fertility. And the God, which I have an example, of Kernunos, who is the horned God, or the Hunter, he is shown with the antlers. And also sometimes you will see him dancing. I know it's a really tiny picture, and stuff. And normally you'll see him nude, and people figure he's barbaric or whatnot. And normally they will show him with an erect fallace, showing that he is also part of the fertility, a hunt. And, I don't know. There was a cave and I can't remember if it was in France or not. I believe it was in France, where they had another horned God figure that was found on a wall. And archaeologists are finding things every day. They've found crystals, they've found parts of brooms and stuff. Well brooms everybody used anyway. But still, they are trying to piece together these things and Shamanic type huts. "