Here's my inflated two cents.

I ALSO enjoyed the story and hope to see more by Geoffrey.

As for knowing what "wicca" is, it's all relevant to your amount of exposure to 
it.  I know of it only because I came across the term years ago I was interested 
in studying various religions and Wiccan was one of them.  However, Witches have 
known of "Wicca" for as long as there have been folks who believe they 
are "witches" so, as a common person, not claiming to have knowledge of witchcraft 
the term will probably not be known, but, for Mr. Blum to use it is just a by-
product of some personal research or knowledge he has gained along the way.  Now 
that we readers have seen the word we know it has an association to witches and 
witchcraft and that's really all Mr. Blum has done... i.e. Broadened our knowledge 
of witches.  Nothing more, nothing less.  By adding that bit of information he did 
not detract from what Barks created with Magica, nor has he somehow made her a 
different character.  As a witch she knows of "wicca" and by bringing the term 
into the Disney Duck universe he only broadened our understanding of what Magica 
is or believes.  

Also, I'm in full agreement with those who understand that Barks wrote from his 
own "modern" context and did not intend to "freeze" the characters into any 
specific time period.

Thanks,

Rich Bellacera
xephyr@cwnet.com




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