Melissa Joan Hart was not the only witch from her home town. One of her peers from her small town of Sayville was also a headline grabbing witch, only she went a step further. Gregg K. told me, "Melissa and Serena were both close friends of mine." In the popular children’s’ show “Sabrina” the witch frequently casts spells on a hated cheerleader called Libby. But her schoolmate went one step further and killed a popular Sayville High School cheerleader in a demonic ceremony by putting a plastic bag over her head, to “drive the demons out!”
The mother of this infamous witch even gave her an appropriate name: Serena, just like Samantha’s cousin in “Bewitched” and "Madam Serena" in the movie "Teen Sorcery." It was a dark day in Sayville when Serena Martin, a graduate of Sayville High School killed popular cheerleader Charity Miranda, in conjunction with her mother! The murder occurred on the same Aldrich Street where years earlier Sayville resident John Powers showed how much he loved thy neighbor by shooting down some of them. This Adams-like family spent their free time by sacrificing pigeons, fowls, goats, and whatever the rest of us might consider as pets, then eventually a cheerleader. When questioned about her fiendish behavior, Serena exclaimed that she had performed the Santeria ceremony to drive out Charity’s demons. But according to a Sayville urban legend, she only said that because she did not want it known that the cheerleader was a sacrifice like the goats and pigeons.
Every single person I spoke to said that they never saw Melissa Joan Hart anywhere near this witch Serena. However, a lot of them said they were friends with both. They were somewhat in the same social group. Like some of her friends, Serena was often seen dressed in black that would remind people of a Goth.
Is Santeria a form of witchcraft? I asked expert Pastor Stan Madrak at demonbusters.com who told me “Santeria is a very powerful form of witchcraft.”
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I am extremely confused. How is Sabrina the Teenage Witch in any way related to actual witches? Why would a witch ever engage in something as appalling and magically useless as human sacrifice?
And why didn't this moron ask an actual Lukumi about their practices, instead of a widely-discredited "Christian" pastor?
"ceremony by putting a plastic bag over her head, to “drive the demons out!”"
"ceremony by putting a plastic bag over her head, to “drive the demons out!”"
"ceremony by putting a plastic bag over her head, to “drive the demons out!”"
"ceremony by putting a plastic bag over her head, to “drive the demons out!”"
Driving demons OUT doesn't sound like witchcraft to me...
Normally anyone who tries to drive out the demons is a good Christian, but since her name has been used in witch shows, she's an evil witch. Um, k.
Don't priests wear lots of black?
Every single person I spoke to said that they never saw Melissa Joan Hart anywhere near this witch Serena. However, a lot of them said they were friends with both.
Just like Elizabeth Montgomery in "Bewitched!" Melissa Joan Hart and this witch Serena are the SAME PERSON!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!11!!1
Voldemort was the principal of Sayville high, too. And Sauron was the mayor.
@Matante:
"Also mother fucking tides. Them ugly tides, oh I hate them!"
The tide goes in, the tide goes out, nobody knows why.
What utter drivel! There are no witches, witchcraft doesn't work. These people sounds mentally disturbed.
You find what you look for; when I hear the name Serena, I think of the verb serene; calm and peaceful. No fictional characters from teen witch movies occur to me. What does that say about you, Anonymous?
You have goats as pets?
"Is Santeria a form of witchcraft? I asked expert Pastor Stan Madrak at demonbusters.com who told me “Santeria is a very powerful form of witchcraft.”"
I'm no expert on alternative arcana, but I know that the whole 'pins in a doll to cause harm to another' in Voodoo is just complete bullshit. The actual practice involves a wooden figure - with holes in strategic 'energy points' - in which one inserts tiny pegs, to channel healing energies into a person.
Seems that even I - an ordinary Joe Schmoe Atheist - knows more than a Pastor . Troll/Poe/Nuts4Life, who can't understand anything , I'm looking at you .
If you go to the site indicated in the posting here, there is a large amount of material trying to dress this up as witchcraft/santereia. The story is posted several places on the internet verbatim, but seems to have originated at a site promoting local history/tourism in Sayville Long Island (typing in to nearby Amityville). The only connection to the actress Hart is she allegedly went to the same high school as the girls.
The NYT tells a different story:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/21/nyregion/sister-of-dead-long-island-teen-ager-offers-account-of-killing-in-exorcism.html
First of all I didn't think Chasity Miranda was a real name, and its not. Her name was Chastity Miranda Martin, the sister of the girl who murdered her. In fact these girls and their mother were fundamentalist Christians who did indeed try to exorcize the dead girl. What they was pretend to kill her--putting the bag over her head, in the expectation that the demon would leave, thinking she was being killed. This is an old British folk custom--for example to hold a sick baby over a cliff or roof top and announce that you are going to throw her down in the expectation that the demon causing the illness will leave. In this case it got out of hand. It might be forgivable for peasants to do this in the year 1400, but now its just insanity.
So a narrative whose truth (or at least its report in the Times) implicates Christianity in a horrible murder, has been twisted to make it appear that witchcraft was responsible for the outrage. I've suspected for some time that that commandment about false witness was optional.
This Adams-like family spent their free time by sacrificing pigeons, fowls, goats
QV most of the Old Testament.
God always loved the smell of a good kosher BBQ.(no pork snaggers mind...)
Sacrificing someone to "drive out demons" sounds like something a crazy christian would do.
Also, I don't recall seeing the episode of the Addams Family where they sacrificed a cheerleader.
Anon here is totally right!
By playing a teenage witch on T.V., Melissa Joan Hart is clearly a witch in real life!
Then again, prior to Sabrina, she played an ordinary non-witch teenage girl in Clarissa Explains It All, so that might cancel out her being a witch (according to Sabrina canon you’re born a witch, so Melissa couldn’t have converted to Witchcraft after being normal) And long after Sabrina, MJH guest starred on Law and Order: SVU as a rape victim. I wonder why she didn't use her magical witch powers to stop her rapist...
Now, if you all will excuse me, I have to track down Matt Smith and ask him to take me adventuring in his TARDIS.
@ Swede
What utter drivel! There are no witches, witchcraft doesn't work. These people sounds mentally disturbed.
There are witches - e.g. practioners of Wicca I have even attended a few ceremonies and rites. They are real. Now, as to witchcraft "working" or not, depends on what you mean.
Let me guess, she played Dungeons & Dragons and read the Harry Potter books, too, didn't she?
And frankly, "driving out demons" sounds more like what superstitious and stupid Christian fundies tend to do.
But according to a Sayville urban legend,
Well, as long as you have a reliable source of info...
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@ Mister Spak
The tide goes in, the tide goes out, nobody knows why.
It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I don't get it.
@Helena
When I read this post I immediately thought: Sounds like someones trying to cover up a Christian exorcism gone wrong, using the time-honored method of accusing all involved of being some non-Christian group.
Not even remotely the first time either.
And "expert Pastor Stan Madrak at demonbusters"
Really? The Demonbusters are resposible for most the Bat-shit Fundie fan-fiction about exorcism and Demon fighting we see on this site. And they're really bad at it, no Stephen Kings are ever gonna arise from these groups.
"The murder occurred on the same Aldrich Street where years earlier Sayville resident John Powers showed how much he loved thy neighbor by shooting down some of them"
SHOW HOW MUCH HE LOVED THE NEIGHBORHOOD BY KILLING TWO INNOCENT PEOPLE? THE CREATOR OF THIS ARTICLE SHOULD BE CHOPPED TO BITS!
Is Santeria a form of witchcraft? I asked expert Pastor Stan Madrak at demonbusters.com who told me “Santeria is a very powerful form of witchcraft.”
Yeah, but according to demonbusters.com everything is a form or witchcraft...
@EATSHITFUCKFACE, the two people that John Powers killed weren’t innocent, they were actually two organized criminals who attacked him first, he shot them after, during an altercation, do your research next time bud.
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