Dr. Rebecca Beattie

Or How a Modern Idea Became a ‘Magical Law’ (and the reasons we need to leave it behind) I have been polishing a talk that I am presenting this weekend, which is titled, Bound by Words: A History of Cursing. It’s a talk I’ve given before, but each time I give it, it makes me re-evaluate how I feel about cursing. What’s really changed over time is my own personal response to it. When I say ‘it’, what I mean is the act of cursing, and wider perceptions of Wiccan ethics. I may b