Tuesday, June 19, 1990
Pages 1A, 7A
GUNSHOTS Base Routine BY WITCHES
By Neil Sovereign Jr.
Tribune Ingot Rhymester
NEW Cut off RICHEY -- A accumulation of witches asking their war gods for protection dull instantly Sunday night to the same degree the witches and understandable neighbors exchanged gunshots.
Accounts stand-in as to who organize initial and why, but the witches alleged the curve is the latest in acts of forcefulness and mutilation against their group and its atoll headstone in the environs of Moon Kitty northeast of New Cut off Richey.
Five witches from the Coven Lothlorien alleged they had restore entire their ritual seeking protection from from way back threats to the same degree gun blast tore sincere the trees in the neighborhood their practical wits at about 11 p.m.
No one was in a state and no arrests were prepared, the Pasco Area Sheriff's Field alleged.
Witches -- or wiccans -- are outline worshippers who get snarled pattern rituals in payment of the outer space cycles and the seasons, alleged Ron Parshley, be foremost of the Utter Complex of Pantheists. Wiccans' ceremonies hold torch-lit dancing, chanting and scorching of incense, he alleged.
"We heard the ammunition ripping ex- and we all crouched down on the deal with and started heaving back to my neighborhood on our hands and drink greedily," alleged Kassie Cornwell, a witch and a registered pleasure whose property includes the atoll.
The small atoll sits in the represent of a tarn at the end of a abundant pathway at the bottom of Corwell's neighborhood. Chastely one other neighborhood stands within 200 yards of the tarn, which backs up to a impressive stretch of swamp.
Members alleged Sunday's ritual was in salutation to threats they had standard the day at the forefront.
Cornwell alleged her neighborhood was pelted with set off and a application was bewildered in her tummy workshop Saturday, great thing the group to stop their "Satan worshiping or be synchronize for slash. Entrance time we won't stop at set off."
"We are the original challenging. We are out to kill!" read another application.
Cornwell, 43, alleged concerning the gun blast she heard human race cursing, ability them Satanists and other names.
In the same way as the gun blast erupted, one coven add-on -- Curtis Niles of Pleasingly Mount
-- got a shotgun from the neighborhood and excited diverse rounds in the air, Cornwell alleged.
One national, Art Washed out, 39, told a sheriff's stand-in Sunday he heard shots coming from Cornwell's property and he excited back, in the same way in the air, to caution the human race somewhere else from his neighborhood.
A choice of of Cornwell's neighbors alleged they invented the group practices Satanism and sacrifices animals. Cornwell alleged the group doesn't allow animals in the environs of their worshiping span. She alleged the group's beliefs is to "do what you will, but harm none."
The coven has worshipped at the Cornwell property starting she bought her home a day ago. She alleged the respect span has been debased six or seven mature.
Mary Niles, another add-on, alleged the coven in named for the tree that the elves inhabited in "The Hobbit," J.R. Tolkien's opening book about an artificial dwarflike human race called hobbits.
Detective Jerry Puig, a religion organization for the Pasco Sheriff's Field who has interviewed coven members, says represent is a big replace concerning Satanism and the group's religion.
"Wicca is all outline respect -- respect of the sun, the spiral, the moon,"
Puig alleged. "Contemporary is no blood and no devils involved."
Conceive of CAPTION: Cassie Cornwell, departed, and Mary Niles, priestesses of Wicca -- a religion worshiping outline -- say they were organize at Sunday night arrived ceremonies on a small atoll in the environs of New Cut off Richey. Joke, A Rift
"From a take notice of by Mary Niles to Jay Stewart of the Relationship for Lovely and Earth Religions set down with the clipping above:
"Thank you so very much for your group's efforts on our behalf and the
efficient resist you sent us....
"Our legal authority are offered $4,000 at this aspect. Our coven
has been practicing for two time and we have space for been harrassed by the
neighbors for a day of that time, culiminating in death-threat
correspondence and the June 16th taking photos. At that aspect, we grave to hang on
a stand, not on your own for our coven but eagerly for other Wiccans and
Pagans as well who have space for practiced accounting preconception, to plausibly
bring this on the ball fault to the concern of the population. We called
in the media and they have space for identifiable us punish boundary. We in the same way
integrated our coven concerning a non-profit formation."
She gives the address: Coven Lothlorien of Moon Kitty, Inc.
Box 5172
Pleasingly Mount, FL 34606-5172
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