# 105 Who’s Your Daddy?
Aug20
on August 20, 2016
at 12:01 AM
Hey gang, the plot thickens, like gravy….mmmm gravy….
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“Airhead genie” – Hey, it’s nice of Kazom to give a shout-out to Jean!
“Witch” is gender-neutral, but “wizard” isn’t? (Good thing he’s not going to Princeton.)
Female witches wanted revenge for all those not-really-gender-neutral words men established, so they declared “witch” gender neutral and cast a curse on anyone who wouldn’t agree. Kazom doesn’t dare to use “wizard” for fear of being affected by that curse.
And maybe reference to the witch vs. genie arc in Bottle.
Makes sense that he is a witch. Melvin’s powers work a lot more like the characters on Bewitched than a typical wizard.
There was a story in “Jeanie Bottle” where Jean gets into a magic duel against a Samantha expy. Thus, a Bewitched-type “Witch Species” are established as existing in this world.
The Chronicles will go more into some of these classifications as it progresses.
The male equivalent to a witch is a warlock. To a comic based around the supernatural and fantasy shit, I didn’t think you would not know that.
@mca0004. @Larry @Rinko @hkmaly; As a Family Trad that can trace my heritage back to 1314 I have to say you are sadly mistaken, the term Warlock is an insult, it refers to a traitor. The actual etymology of the word is, Unfaithful, Disloyal, a Liar, one who breaks their word. Waerloka is the original Celtic term and has been Anglicized to Warlock.
Witches ARE NOT Shapeshifters, they are Teachers, Healers, Herbalists, the word means Wise One. A Male Witch is a Witch the same as a Female Witch is a Witch, the terms thrown about here are those of the Church of Rome not Pagan terms. BTW the name Pagan means People of The Ground just as Heathen means People of the Heath. Refers to Farmers, Woodsmen, Crofters, Shepherds and people who work with the land.
Actually, “pagan” is from the Latin term paganus, meaning “country dweller”, in the sense of “bumpkin”, or “yokel”, and was historically used as a mild, but entirely secular, insult. It wasn’t until the mid-20th century that anyone started using the word “pagan”, as having a religious meaning. So that’s a modern interpretation.
Well, one of the characteristics of the ‘yokels’ was that they still worshipped the old gods — things like keeping a shrine in their home for the lars familiaris and leaving offerings for them or celebrating the festivals for the old gods. That was one of the reason that the Christian church co-opted so many of the pre-Christian festivals and holy days — to take the days the pagans celebrated their deities and refocus their worship on the Christian faith. But ‘pagan’ has always carried at least the undertone of non-Christian worship, although it’s only recently that it’s become the primary definition.
5.5 years late, I know, but i just found this comic.
Witch is also an insult, dragonrider. Witch comes from the old english word for necromancer, or “she who questions/wakes the dead”. Druid, meaning wisdom from wood and Wizard meaning Wise Man fit infinitely better.
Oh, so people are getting really touchy over whether men are called witches or wizards or warlocks. It looks like the female witches want everybody called a witch. OK, think they put curse on anyone that don’t agree to there turms.
if so, then some things never change, kek.
Maybe the solution is that all witches are shapeshifters and can switch between female and male as they wish, Merlin just hasn’t tried yet.
Perhaps she has 🙂
Don’t care about male/female–witch seems to apply to both, historically.
Warlock comes from a root meaning “oath-breaker”.
Wizard comes from “wise”.
Sorcerer comes from Old Latin meaning “one who casts lots”. According to one source I saw, this is also the meaning of the biblical word now translated as “witch”.
Mage is from Old Persian, meaning magician or astrologer.
Some sources try to distinguish these classes based on the source of one’s power; witches in particular are said to get their powers from Satan or evil spirits. So do sorcerers. A wizard, on the other hand, gets his powers from study and practice. A warlock is an adept who has broken with his order.
AND NONE OF THAT MATTERS HERE. A witch is whatever Bachmann says it is, although I’d guess that in our world, “wizard” may indeed have been a closer match.
If you want to take this one step further. When the term witch is use in the bible in Galatians to describe one of the fruits of the flesh. It a seductive women or man that seduces two or more people of the opposite sex with there charm and/or by the way they move around genera seduce them. There said to have a bewitching effect on people.
The term witch went from being a “witch that does magic” to “bewitching some one personal appeal” to back to “witch that does magic”
I agree with you on this one 50srefugee. It basically needs to be authors choice on this one.
that’s the English translation. You wanna cite Galatians for older than thou etymology, get a phonetic of the old Hebrew.
I try to pay homage to CD’s creation as well as try new ground. I can’t please all, but I try to be respectful to multiple views. I am putting a slight spin on some things. I just hope you enjoy the strip without taking it to seriously.
Can you explain the terminology then? Or will we have to wait for future comics?
I think that, under the terminology that Kazom is using, “Witch” means a human(oid) who has magic as genetic heritage, whereas wizard/sorcerer/whatever gain their magic by being granted it by an entity or artifact, or by intense training.
P.S.: CD has already shown that a Bewitched-type “witch species” exists in the world of “Jeanie Bottle” and Melvin. These are probably the Witches to whom Kazom refers.
Most of this will unfold as the strip goes on. Sometimes you will get little blocks of info, like the next few strips.