ITN news ran an item in the week questioning the dark side of Warner Bros. marketing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. A high priest of British White Witches has noticed the apprentice sorcerer riding his broomstick backwards on a piece of early publicity material.
According to Kevin Carlyon, who heads a coven in Sussex, this is something utterly out of practice for any self respecting practitioner of witchcraft, good or evil. Carlyon stated in a interview, "Warner Bros claims the film is an accurate portrayal of things that happen in witchcraft, Yet woodcuts from the 16th and 17th centuries show broomsticks being ridden with the brush part in the front."
Surprisingly, the studio has made no comment to the complaint.
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ITN news ran an item in the week questioning the dark side of Warner Bros. marketing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. A high priest of British White Witches has noticed the apprentice sorcerer riding his broomstick backwards on a piece of early publicity material.