Witch Watch: In dream, she has an ill-fitting coat

from the Farmington Observer March 3, 1980

Dreams dream dreams, what do they all mean? I'll tell you one dream I keep having and it's meaning: I go to my car and have a flat tire. No real meaning at all since I have had 4 flat tires in the past few months! It simply meant that I needed new front tires and I bought some, though one did have a rim leak and went flat again!

A second dream that I've had many times, though different in each instance, is that of crashing airplanes. They are almost always jumbo jets and they tend to fly over me when I'm driving as I watch them go down. I don't know what it means since I've never flown on an airplane nor seen one crash. I've not had a desire to fly and always loved driving so it's never really been an issue or a fear, just a preference. Although it could be entirely possible that I have embedded memories in my subconscious from when a plane that my dad was flying on back in the 1970s lost power in one engine over the Pacific Ocean en route from Hawaii to the mainland.

As for the spell portion of the column does anybody know what verva is? I don't know if that's a misprint, a shortened version of a flower or herb name or what. And it might be easier to just follow her latter advice of being nicer to people in your lives than trying to procure a dove's egg! Seeing as I'm not a witch, I also wonder whether they use more modern guidelines when dealing with living creatures or using such thing as a dove's egg in a spell or ritual. It seems more a dark ritual or sacrifice when something living is used in a spell. Of course, many herbs and plants were living as well before being plucked from the Earth.

Witch Watch: Evil deeds can have a boomerang effect

from the Farmington Observer August 12, 1976

I was at the Garden City Historical Museum today and looked over a large binder of Gundella's manuscripts, letters (to and from her), brochures, articles, course outlines and much more that was donated by the Observer papers when they moved their headquarters. It kind of depressed me because they will photocopy the material for patrons but at $1 per page (two sides) it seemed a bit prohibitive. In fact it's kind of excessive when you consider that Kinko's only charges 10c per copy! There's some great stuff there though and it would fill up this blog with a year's worth of material. I offered to digitize it for them but they seemed uninterested in the suggestion so I didn't push it. You'd think they would want to get the information out into the public but maybe they were more concerned by a stranger handling the binder.

I also contacted one of Mrs. Kuclo's sons today in hopes that he could add to the blog as well. It gets a little frustrating finding mostly brief articles and columns which don't add much insight into her personal life. Not for gossip or anything like that but biographical purposes. The big binder did confirm that she was born in 1930 in Port Huron, whereas I was under the impression that she was from northern Michigan. It also had an article which said that the former baseball player Vida Blue once thought that she placed a hex on him which was contributing to a rough patch of play for him. Despite her loyalty to the Tigers she confirmed that no such spell was in place! Brilliant.

Oh well, here's another Witch Watch column that I dug up. I'll have to add a few of the quotes from this article to the random quote generator above the sections feature.