Non Fluffy Wicca

United States: School is a hotbed of danger to fundamantalists. What could be worse than their dear children acquiring the skills with which they can discover that religion is a load of old bollocks? Some fundies create the most elaboratly fantastic lies to avoid sending their children to school - take Jake Jenkins of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who claims that witches are out to get him and his eight children.

He told a Times Leader photographer witches are trying to kill me. Asked why, he said, I really don't know.

His protection against dark forces extends beyond his front door.

A tree stump in the center of his small front yard is adorned with wooden stakes: nine point skyward, and seven jut from its side along its circumference.

It's a map of the neighborhood, Jenkins said. Each spike points to where a witch lives.

There's a whole bunch that live up there, he said, pointing north up Waller Street.

The horizontal stakes, painted red, point out the witches, he said. The purpose of the vertical ones? To gently dissuade witches from using his stump for ceremonies.

What they used to do is come by and sit on it, he said.

An orange plastic fence on either side of his home is yet another anti-witch precaution. They would always try to sneak over.

Jenkins won't name names, but says he's got the dirt on the neighborhood.