Witches

Endora- The mother of Samantha, perhaps one of the most powerful witches in modern television.  

If you Google Endora, here's what you get:

• Endora (Bewitched), the magical mother-in-law portrayed by Agnes Moorehead on the TV sitcom Bewitched
• Endora Lenox, the good witch character on the television soap opera Passions
• Endora, a planet-sized matrioshka array in the Walter Jon Williams novel Implied Spaces

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Did you know the name Endora is a nod to the Witch of Endor, who is mentioned in the Bible?  Dig a little further into Google and you can find this:

Witch of Endor. In the Hebrew Bible, the Witch of Endor was a woman who summoned the prophet Samuel's spirit, at the demand of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel in the First Book of Samuel, chapter 28:3–25.


A very powerful witch indeed. What are witches but empowered women.  The word witch in the English language originally meant a wise and aged woman.  You will have to search a lot harder to find that definition.  The word has been corrupted by our culture to mean something very different. Originally back in the Middle Ages, witches were elderly-learned women of the community and were highly regarded as nurturers, mothers, grandmothers, healers, and keepers of knowledge.  

With Halloween coming, it is time to remember that real Witches are everywhere.

- Cat


The Magic Man and the Nightshade Hotel 

Endora

🎃

Edi

Time

I inherited a turn of the century grandmother clock from my mother.  It had belonged to my Italian nonna.  My grandmother clock is a tall wooden clock, but with shelves rather than a pendulum.

It is electric but has to be wound to start, and the hands have to be set from behind, like a watch.

The old clock stopped the day my mother died.  I haven't had the heart to reset it.

We've heard this before, about clocks stopping when the owner dies.

My mother-in-law also used a clock, in this case her wristwatch to communicate with me.

It was a beautiful wristwatch that we had given her, and I came to inherit it when she passed.

I wore it to visit my in-laws and forgot my regular watch.  I now feel like the universe planned it that way.  I had to wear the expensive watch all week.  My sister-in-law just had surgery and we were there to help out.  On the last night there she and her brother got into a heated spat.  I was upset, but decided not to interfere.

The next morning before we flew home, I noticed the watch had stopped working the night before.

Message delivered.  I spoke the words I had held back, and told my husband his mother was upset.  Her watch had stopped.  He apologized to his sister.

My mother in law's watch started working again, but I will take it for a new battery.

What is the connection we have to clocks? Is it emotional? Do they symbolize our time here on earth, and thus remain as a portkey or conduit to our spirit in the beyond?

Doing Time: The Circle of Infinity