{"id":1017,"date":"2014-02-21T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-02-21T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:29:00","slug":"magic-methodists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2014\/02\/21\/magic-methodists\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Methodists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting to read about the curious entanglement of folk beliefs with early Methodism in North Staffordshire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the most graphic instances of Methodist involvement in the world of popular witchcraft [&#8230;] occurred during the camp meetings of the Forest Methodists earned them a supernatural reputation, and the popular name of &#8216;Magic Methodists&#8217;. Writing in the latter half of the century, the local [North] Staffordshire historian Henry Wedgwood recalled that many of the local inhabitants at the time were terrified of the magical activities of an innkeeper named Zacchariah Baddeley [see: Henry Wedgwood, <em>Up and Down the County<\/em>, Hanley, 1880] [&#8230;] The Methodist authorities were obviously well aware of the supernatural beliefs held by many of their members.&#8221; &mdash; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.gsu.edu\/~mbrown\/gothic\/Methodism_Magic_Witchcraft.pdf\">&#8220;Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic&#8221;<\/a>, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><em>Folk-lore<\/em> journal 1968 adds&#8230; &#8220;It is a pity that Wedgwood is not more explicit about the sort of magic that Baddeley professed to work&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting to read about the curious entanglement of folk beliefs with early Methodism in North Staffordshire&#8230; &#8220;One of the most graphic instances of Methodist involvement in the world of popular witchcraft [&#8230;] occurred during the camp meetings of the Forest Methodists earned them a supernatural reputation, and the popular name of &#8216;Magic Methodists&#8217;. Writing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}