Situational awareness

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I suppose that situational awareness is a survival skill that can be practiced anywhere. I've always felt that I'd rather take my chances with four legged animals, as opposed to the dual.

Pentagram




Melted candles, it followed up a limb.

 
Kids and speed metal probably. Now days they all think they are vampires
 
My guess is that it wasn't wiccans. More likely to be ceremonial magicians. In general the latter are more into shocking people and would be into leaving signs behind like that. In theory, wicca is a religion that respects nature and they would be less likely to leave signs behind like that.
 
Just a symbol. Kids being goofy and trying to freak people out. The more people get excited about that kind of thing, the cooler it is to do.
 
Probably kids. If you search you may turn up something on youtube.

n2s
 
too much effort for a casual prank. At least there's not a stain in the middle . . . just a cross??
 
Not trying to hi-jack this thread,but it reminded me of these situations. My dad has range cattle and spends a lot of time in the mountains checking on them and rounding them up. On two occasions he has found cattle that have been mutilated. They,it,or them cut out the reproductive organs,udders,and patches around the mouth and/or eyes. He always has dogs with him and said the dogs avoided the cattle like the plague. There was no blood,no other visible tracks and the cattle had not struggled. It's like they just dropped over dead.
 
sykes3170 said:
Not trying to hi-jack this thread,but it reminded me of these situations. My dad has range cattle and spends a lot of time in the mountains checking on them and rounding them up. On two occasions he has found cattle that have been mutilated. They,it,or them cut out the reproductive organs,udders,and patches around the mouth and/or eyes. He always has dogs with him and said the dogs avoided the cattle like the plague. There was no blood,no other visible tracks and the cattle had not struggled. It's like they just dropped over dead.
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Now THAT is scary!
 
The cattle mutilation thing sounds to me like some unoriginal psychopaths. A few steps up the crazy scale from drawing a pentagram and burning some candles but the idea is the same. Shock people and make themselves feel powerful.
 
This all may well be nothing but kids goofing. But it creeps me out to think that folks are fooling with this stuff at night. Years ago there were on going cattle mutilations out here. It went on for a long time. And there is a heavy religious aspect to this area with many larger religious institutions etc. This kind of thing has come up every few years and it has been speculated that it is blow back against the multiple local religious communities. I have no idea, but I have always kept an eye out for bush partiers and parked vehicles. You just never know what you can walk up to, so I stay away from strange vehicles and groups. If given a choice, I'd rather chat up local kids camping and fishing, as opposed to burning candles by a Pentagram.
;)
 
Most cattle mutilation has been very thoroughly debunked by experts in decomposition and scavengers. As far as effort for a prank, that one is simple compared to some crop circle stunts.

Thats not to say the someone might not have done it at one time or another, but I've dealt with cows, and I honestly don't know how you could kill a cow and cause all sorts of trauma without leaving a visible kill wound, and blood everywhere. Occam's razor suggests natural causes and a few copycats, or a good excuse for insurance. If anyone actually did it, they got the idea from the "satanic panic" folks. Just like the kids who killed a black cat on halloween, they only did it because they got the idea from news, knowing it would freak people out. But in general, people are not nearly as ambitious or deranged as that. They commit simpler crimes like graffiti and petty arson.
 
Children.... When I was in high school there was a guy who wanted attention. Who found a dead pigeon in the street, put it on the school steps with a pentagram around it. It was in the local news and papers. The guy was a clown, not a pagen or satan worshiper.

Nice detector you got there.
 
Other than my hatred for graffiti it wouldn't bother me one bit to see this type of thing. Somebody elses hocus pocus is meaningless to me.
 
Shotgun said:
Other than my hatred for graffiti it wouldn't bother me one bit to see this type of thing. Somebody elses hocus pocus is meaningless to me.
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I share the sentiment, I say let people practice what they want. As long as it isn't actually hurting anybody who cares what they beleive
 
I.N.F.K said:
I share the sentiment, I say let people practice what they want. As long as it isn't actually hurting anybody who cares what they beleive
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Perhaps just another excuse for a bunch of young would-be wiccans to prance around the woods naked.....;)

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
Perhaps just another excuse for a bunch of young would-be wiccans to prance around the woods naked.....;)

n2s
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The wiccan part being the excuse and the prancing around naked being the main event. Aaah to be young again. :)

I agree with shotgun & infk. Every belief system has their rituals. As long as it isn't hurting anyone then go to it.
 
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