Religion, ghosts, gods, chupacabra and beliefs?

[Jenny A]

My grandfather was telling a story about a woman who had the evil eye. She sometimes hexed children and pregnant woman but more often pigs (It was Denmark after all). My uncle said, Dad, you don't really believe in witches do you? Grampa said only in Europe. There are no witches in America.

It still makes me laugh.

I'd laugh harder if the uncle hadn't gone on to become a young earther and joined a school board in Oklahoma. I try to image him explaining to his Danish relatives that the earth is a over a billion years old in Europe but less than six thousand in America. It amuses me.

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Traditional Scottish Prayer that made it's way into some North American churches Scottish and otherwise:

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!