motion to expunge WITCHCRAFT and WITCH NUNT from the Brirtish Lexicon

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

to be a wizard seems to be positive and masculine and to be a witch seems to be negative and feminine.

I would like to move that the worlds WITCHCRAFT and WITCHHUNT should be EXPUNGED  from the  English/British Lexicon because they prove to be unfair, discriminatory and archaic

in place of the  words WITCHCRAFT  we could use CRUEL CRAFT and in place of witch hunt we use Heinous Hunt.

 Publishers of oxford dictionary and cammbrdge dictionary please take note

including my vice chancellor, Professor Ayo Banjo  of the English Department, university of  Ibadan ,Nigeria copy also to Professor Akin Adesokan,university of Indiana, African studies department

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

you want to expunge terms with huge historical and contemporary significance even in Britain?

the negativization of the term witch in Britain has no longer been the case for perhaps a century.

Modern Western witchcraft is one of the West's fast growing spiritualities and is described by Roland Hutton in The Rise of Modern Western Witchcraft  as the only religion England has given the world.

''Witch hunt'' remains vital as a reminder of social and individual vulnerabilities humanity must always guard against.

thanks

toyin

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