Never doubt the power of a Witch's Circle, I know now that I never will. Let me tell you why and about what happened to me on a late afternoon in mid-spring a few years ago.
I'm an average looking guy, about average height, 5-foot 7, average build, average everything and happily married for many years. I just happen to be involved in the Renaissance Fair community. Not the large, famous Ren Fair here in Southern California, but with the smaller fairs that were springing up all around So. Cal.
There was this informal group that I often work with and we were collaborating on a project for an upcoming small Ren Fair. A few of us were supposed to visit the park where the next fair was going to be held so we could check out the site and finalize the plans for our project. I called my wife at work to let her know where I was going and to see if she wanted to meet anywhere for dinner. However she had some upcoming deadlines and would certainly be working very late, so she told me not to wait for her and just go ahead and have dinner with our group.
When I arrived at the park, I didn't see any of my people right away, but I did recognize a car as belonging to one of our ladies. I pulled up to the curb behind her little blue import and started hiking over to the fair area, looking around to try and spot them. It only took a short walk before I caught sight of the owner of the car, but she was alone. Obviously, no one else had shown up yet. Oh well, this was pretty typical of our freewheeling group.
She was easy to recognize from a distance, physically she was one of those ladies that's several pounds overweight. The type that's easily overlooked in normal clothes but was transformed by her Ren Fair garb into a saucy, buxom, lusty wench. Her extra weight was evenly distributed, giving her full hips, a slightly rounded tummy and very large, beautiful breasts. In her costume, she would usually go without a bra and cinch up the bodice nice and tight, pushing her breasts way up and showing lots and lots of splendid cleavage. This did very good things for her generous figure, attracting a lot of male attention. I had seen a few fair guests hit on her, but she usually ignored them. I didn't even know if she had a boyfriend outside of fair and I had never seen her with anyone steady at fair. She often hung around several of the guys, sharing a drink or a laugh or even the occasional kiss, but she didn't seem to be serious about anyone. Light brown eyes in a round face sprinkled with subtle, almost invisible freckles and a head of chestnut-colored hair, very straight down past her shoulder blades completed her look.
We walked around the site for a while, trying to get a feel for the layout and waiting to see if anyone else would show up. When it started to get dark, I offered to treat her to dinner since my wife was working late and I was on my own. She mentioned a pub that was popular with the renaissance crowd, which wasn't very far away and off we went in our separate cars. While dining on fish and chips, we continued to discuss the upcoming fair and skim the event newsletter.
"Look at this," she pointed at a page of the newsletter with several ads, "why are there so many Witches at the fair?"
I pulled the newsletter over to my side of the table and looked. "I never could figure that out, either. There's a bunch of stuff about Wicca in here."
"Wicca? That's a type of Witchcraft, isn't it?" She asked.
"Yeah, I think it's one kind of Witchcraft. British or something."
"I've heard a rumor that they do their rituals in the nude." She had a sly smile on her face and arched an eyebrow at me.
"I doubt it, this ad is for a open Beltane ritual at a public park." I showed her the ad. "I don't' think they'd go bare naked in a public park. I don't even like to go regimental in my kilt if the public has free access to the site."
"The date is for tonight. Want to go see it? I've never seen a Wiccan ceremony."
"We'll have to hurry, that park is a few miles away and the ad says it starts in about ten minutes."