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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A self-discribed Wiccan, 30-year-old Angela Sanford, has been in jail charged with last month’s stabbing death of 52-year-old Joel Leyba. She claims that she invited Leyba to a popular hiking trail in Albuquerque to join her in a Wiccan celebration of spring. She claims that while there,  Libya attacked her and attempted to rape her. She claims she pretended to want to have sex and then stabbed Leyba three times in the stomach in an act of self-defense. But police claim the evidence does not support her story. They claim that Sanford lured Leyba to the hiking trail with every intention of killing him. Aside from her account being a bit shady, it does not help her defense that Lebya was listed in Sanford’s cell phone as “sacrifice”. “It makes us absolutely confident there was something more here than her claims of self-defense,” said Patrick Davis, a spokesman for the Bernalillo County district attorney’s office.

Understandably, local Wiccans are distancing themselves from Sanford. They state they are not aware of her in their community and that they question her whole “celebration of Spring” thing because that doesn’t actually take place until late April or May. Police have not released what they think the true motive for the killing was, but it is being reported that the two met at a casino a week before the stabbing.

It is cool to see other people listing their contacts by something describing them. I do the same exact thing. Mapei, Spirits, Demented, and Parasite are just a few that I am currently using.

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  • kaylara

    Those Wiccans are lying. Ostara was last month on the Vernal Equinox. Beltaine is what happens on May 1. Aside from that, I have to wonder exactly what she was trying to accomplish. Any Wiccan worth her weigh knows that sex magick is much better than trying to use the energy that comes from killing something. Especially sacrificing something that doesn't mean much to you. And I doubt that he meant much to her, given that he'd known her about a week.

    -_- Idiot. Stupid, stupid, stupid, idiot. Giving every non-brain-dead Wiccan a bad name.

  • Boringusername

    Forsooth!, some vile sorcerer hath cast a cone of crazy upon her, only a lifetime in the halls of hoosegow can undo such a black casting! For only the largest sisters of eternal incarceration and their splintery wands of probing can properly minister to her.

  • Coyote

    If she’s into practicing sacrificial witchcraft, maybe she ought to be burned at the stake.

  • Redsaid

    That sounds like a fitting end to a mistake of natue to me.

  • http://www.red-alerts.com RobTaylor

    Untrue. Anyone who practices magic of any kind (and Wiccans don't because for the most part it's a fraud) knows sacrifices of any kind are the best way to make offerings, which is why Voodoo and Santaria practitioners cut off chicken heads rather than bang each other.

    Sex magic is a selfish fraud, where men claim that they can “raise power” by being rode by some chick. Aleister Crowley introduced it and people have been watering it down ever since.

    You're right though. The Wiccans are willing to move their supposedly sacred holidays around just to keep from admitting some of the Wiccans out there are crazy.

  • kbryan

    Boy, whatta witch ! She's just giving her religion the same bad name that good ole Jimmy Swaggart, gave his when he was getting hookers. I wonder if her “MAGIC” will keep her out of jail, or keep the other inmates out of her ass…doubt it. Maybe she'll find God there like everyone else.

  • UniqueMommy1984

    I don't know where some of you are getting your information from but in Wicca one of the major laws is “harm none”. Not saying I am an expert on the religion but considering I just did a long ass paper for a college class on it that I got an A on. I think I would know a little bit. Then you got to think about the threefold law. What you dish out will come back to you in threefold. Plus, a true Wiccan believes in taking responsibility for their own actions whether they are positive or negative.

  • Wildheart

    I have a good friend who has been Wiccan for many years and I absolutely agree with Uniquemommy1984. Most likely this bitch just said she's Wiccan to lure the guy to his death and as an excuse for the police.

  • McDanel_1771

    Nothing remotely Wiccan here, though perhaps Druidic? Or whatever traditions this psycho has drawn on, creating her religion of one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/msmothers1 Monica Smothers

    I just think the bitch was nuts and used her ill concieved notions of Wicca as a cover. Too bad it didn't work.
    But yeah, they are full if it. Ostra was a few months ago and Beltane is quickly coming upon us. And if i am correct there was something inbetween the two. *runs to look at book for holidays*

  • Lizard

    Oh, big fucking deal. I've had Morbid listed in my cell phone as “Sacrifice” for eons. (I have Jaded as “Pooky.”)

  • Monica

    I understand that this is your opinion, but it offends me that you say “Wiccans don't (practice magic) because for the most part it's a fraud.” Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and this is mine: I AM a wiccan, the wiccan religion is NOT a fraud, and I use MAGIC daily. So please, don't give people like me a bad name because there are others out there that don't know what they're spewing out of their mouth. Thank you.

  • http://www.red-alerts.com RobTaylor

    And I was a Wiccan for more than a decade, and am still a Pagan. I know many Wiccans. And Wicca was invented in the 1950s by Gerald Gardner who plagiarized G.G. Leland's Aradia and some O.T.O. rituals. But even that was better than modern Wicca. As the case above demonstrates, Wicca is less a religion these days and more of a term various dabblers and hacks adopt. You should know this and be just as disgusted.

    You've seen the same things I have. People claiming the goddess is a metaphor, magic is simply prayer etc. In my days Wiccans at least got down with some good old fashioned Witchcraft, now they spend most of their time cruising Hot Topic with their daughters and picking up baby daddy material on PaganSpace.

    But you're right, just my opinion. But I wonder if you don't make the point about being made to look bad to the people who, you know, actually make you look bad?

  • http://www.red-alerts.com RobTaylor

    Ostara was march 21st, the exact day of the murder.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    In my days Wiccans at least got down with some good old fashioned Witchcraft, now they spend most of their time cruising Hot Topic with their daughters and picking up baby daddy material on PaganSpace.

    lol…amen…

  • nakedeyes

    Thank You.

  • kaylara

    Sacrifices are most powerful when they cost the person doing the sacrifice something. Otherwise, It's a basically useless gesture. Voodoo and Santaria are from a different background, and sex magic would be severely looked down upon in their paradigm. They also don't stem from the same magical tradition as Crowley or Wicca. Sex magic in one way or another is ancient. Some gods required it, and some required that you abstain. Both use sex and sexuality to achieve a particular magical end. Crowley just built on a tradition that was already there. Also, I think he liked having an excuse to do lots of drugs and screw hookers.

    I'm not willing to change my holidays to distance myself from the stupid Wiccans. And any wiccan who is willing to do so can get the hell out of my religion.

  • http://www.mysticwicks.com/ Kaylara

    I am a Wiccan witch and have been so for 16 years. And no, not the fluffy bullshit. I am disgusted by the new breed wiccans who think that doing whatever you want is Wicca. And I agree with you about Gerald Gardner and the basis of Wicca. (Btw, nice to see someone who will actually tell the truth about Gardner.) Most of the what the new wiccans are doing is not even wiccan. Some don't even know who Gardner was. It's a sad state of affairs.

    I don't think that the people who are making Wicca look bad need any help. The entire magical tradition needs some chlorine.

    So, no, I'm not offended. You're entirely right in just about every statement. I may not like what you're saying, but that doesn't make it any less true. And hearing it from someone who doesn't have their head up their ass will perhaps motivate some people to fix the problems in their magical traditions.

  • http://www.mysticwicks.com/ Kaylara

    I'm getting my information on Wicca from being a practicing Wiccan for 16 years. “Harm None” is a shortened, dumbed down, idiot's version of the guidelines that wiccans use. The Three-fold law is similarly abused. Writing a paper and getting an A on it doesn't mean that you're intimately knowledgeable on what is a Mystery Tradition at it's heart. Not only that, in most of the “traditional” traditions of Wicca, the training for each degree is *at least* a year and a day. Doing a research paper on a subject doesn't make you an expert, no offense.

    I *AM* a Wiccan. I *DO* know what I'm talking about. A true Wiccan does believe in taking responsibility for their own actions, and any possible consequences that may result from their actions.

    Stabbing someone to death is definitely not condoned unless not stabbing them to death would result in a greater amount of harm being done. It's also not going to achieve the outcome that she wants, especially since she's in jail now. (Instant karma, bitch!)

  • http://www.mysticwicks.com/ Kaylara

    Yeah, so what the hell were those local wiccans talking about? Do they think Ostara is a winter holiday? Someone needs to go back to Wicca 101.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

    That whole “Pooky” thing was supposed to be our little secret, Smoochums.

  • Lizard

    You told me it was the OTHER name I had to keep to myself…

  • http://www.red-alerts.com RobTaylor

    Depending. Commerce with spirits in many traditions is just that – commerce. In ancient Greek and Roman tradition Necromancers “fed” the spirits of the dead blood (from sheep) as well as honey, grains and other things when they were summoned. The concept of sacrifice as personal is an extension of Judeo-Christian tradition, or in modern times a post-Judeo-Christian tradition.

    Also remember that Voodoo and Santeria were significantly influenced by Western Occultism, especailly in New Orleans and Brazil. The seals of many Exus for examples are similar to Goetic seals that were widely known about in Western traditions when Voodoo was coalesing, and African traditions have no concept of astrology like the West does, yet Voodoo practitioners often use astrology for timing of spells as well as amulets. In Brazil and other Latin American countries Spiritualism, and the works of Kardac (I think I'm spelling that right) are very influential in African diaspora traditions. All “occult” traditions in the New World are influenced by each other and continue to influence each other.

    I agree with you about Crowley by the way. And frankly he's overrated.