NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/CONFERENCE with TED BENNETT and EVAN DAVIS, Continued

March, 2010

BUFFALO, NY

"But all over the world, normal materials can be thought to be effective if they have been enchanted or blessed, like holy water or a magic sword. Sometimes it's the shape that's the point. Things like the cross can be made out of anything and be thought to have instant power. You see that as a motif in many folk tales.

"So, again, it wasn't the fact of ...