you're telling me wiccans DON'T hand out candy on samhain?

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A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.

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The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.

I can't wait for the response from the Wiccan Anti-Defamation League.

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The traffic on the local mailing lists hereabouts is all of the "Huh?" variety, but a friend of mine claims that some High Priestess or other threatened to sue the school district. I'm trying to find out where he got that from because it's the first I heard of it, and the Pagan rumor mill is truly an impressive mechanism most of the time.

(There actually is, or was, a Witches' Anti-Defamation League. It was disbanded due to infighting. True story.)