{"id":8017,"date":"2016-05-06T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2016-05-06T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:24:41","slug":"its-because-texans-make-good-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Because Texans Make Good Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reportingtexas.com\/out-of-the-shadows-witchcraft-expands-in-austin-and-beyond\/\">Wicca Grows in Austin<\/a>&#8220;! And beyond!<\/p>\n<p>Californians may recognize a familiar name in this Austin group too.<\/p>\n<p>The headline was a youthful pronouncement of mine, because it seemed that if you peeled off the Baptist conditioning, Texans were craz-eee. (Catholics? Maybe so, maybe no.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, &#8220;Wicca Grows in Austin&#8220;! And beyond! Californians may recognize a familiar name in this Austin group too. The headline was a youthful pronouncement of mine, because it seemed that if you peeled off the Baptist conditioning, Texans were craz-eee. (Catholics? 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(Never mind that \"wych elm\" does not mean \"witch elm.\") Some British writers have attempted to cast\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"crime\"","block_context":{"text":"crime","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=crime"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10319","url_meta":{"origin":8017,"position":2},"title":"Texas Witchcraft Murder Archive Finds a Home","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I have diversity right here in the trunk of my rental car, officer. The first problem on any university campus finding a parking spot. I pulled in behind the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, which is part of West Texas A &M University, and all the faculty spaces were full. 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