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Is there any hag (female OR male) out there looking for a carrier advancement?
A job centre is advertising a "witch" vacancy with tourist site Wookey Hole, in Somerset, for £50,000 a year.

The witch, who has to live in the site's caves, is expected to teach witchcraft and magic.

Wookey Hole staff say the role is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch and do the things witches do.

It said ambitious witches looking for a "key career move" should arrive dressed for work armed with any "essential witch accoutrements".

Due to sexual discrimination law, the job cannot demand that the post is filled by a woman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8138665.stm

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I doubt if most witches would enjoy living in a cave.
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emmline wrote:I doubt if most witches would enjoy living in a cave.
With a fire and good ventilation a cave may be quite bearable. With a bear to snuggle up to even more. But those tourists trapsing through to ogle at you are the really annoying factor. Wookey Hole is an awful Disneyland-like setup. Well, if they get a real witch, all that could change in a wink. But then they may launch another Christan offense, with holy-water-throwing and into-stone-turning... Better read the small print in the employment contract.
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On one pagan web-forum I belong to, this advertisement was posted four separate times. The interest is there.

At 50 grand p.a., and working only the Summer Months, I'd consider it, even though I'm more Druidic than Witchy. The Equal Ops people insist that men are interviewed as well as women.

Taunton Moot may find a few takers. A lady I knew in Somerset would certainly have applied, had she not passed away last year.
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With a name like Wookey Hole, they should
advertise for one of these:

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unfortunately they only got Him:

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And to think I studied Alchemy instead. Should have known that witchcraft was where the employment opportunities were.

Come to think of it, weren't the tall hats and use of brooms advertising for a new brew of beer? The old witches use to be quite the brewers if my memory serves me right.
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So I. B. did you go to Stonehendge for the summer solstice?
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emmline wrote:I doubt if most witches would enjoy living in a cave.
They prolly mean 'goth'.
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my youngest just graduated from high school, and still has no idea what he's going to do....

....I'm forwarding this to him!
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Pammy wrote:So I. B. did you go to Stonehendge for the summer solstice?
No.

Stonehenge is for tourists.

I go to AVEBURY stone circle for the WINTER solstice. Don't see the point in celebrating the dying of the light, although I do mark the occasion. This year our moot went up to Coombe Hill and enjoyed the drumming - a drumming group goes up there for the solstice, and they're pretty good - and meet some friends with whom I dance, and set off some sky lanterns. And we had a very quick, very casual circle. But it was all good.
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