Salem

This Sunday we drove to Salem Mass. Where all the famous witch trails happened in the late 1600's. Now Salem is known for its huge witchcraft, wiccan, and neo-pagan community. There are 13 witchcraft stores in Salem alone. Every October there is a month long celebration of Halloween called "Haunted Happenings". It is supposedly the largest witchcraft festival in the world.

Our reason for going today is to learn more about witchcraft to better understand this community. For the next few weekends we will be going back to Salem setting up a tents like we did yesterday at the Chilli Cookoff.

There is a church called "The Gathering" smack dab in the middle of "Haunted Happenings". The Pastor there has a calling for the witchcraft community.He loves them very much and has a wonderful ministry for them. We talked about the differences between wiccans, Satanist, pagans and others. Also to better understand why many left the church to pursue witchcraft.




There were these vampires outside of this store. I wanted to talk to him but instead i took a picture of him.







Here, Caleb (from Canada) takes comfort in the arms of Chad (from Michigan) after a scary day at "Haunted Happenings"







Rebecca (from Sweden) Radiates her beauty in the midst of Salem.