Driver stirs trouble with Budd Lake witch

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MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – A FedEx driver who left a fundamentalist religious tome on a car windshield has learned not to mess with one Budd Lake witch.

Trish Reynolds, an author and longstanding witch or follower of the Wiccan religion and Druid priestess, said the incident shows the negative stereotypes and continuing misunderstanding of Wiccan and Druid beliefs which are pagan, earth based religions.

Reynolds was in the kitchen of her Eagle Rock Village apartment on the morning of Monday, Dec. 14, when the incident unfolded.

She was looking out on her parking lot and saw a FedEx truck stopped. The driver, who later identified himself as Brian Kaufman, made one delivery and was returning to his truck when he saw bumper stickers on Reynolds’ car, which included a pentagram and the words, “Goddess Bless America.”

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Apparently upset, Kaufman went back to his truck and returned to place a small pamphlet under the windshield wiper of Reynolds’ car.

Kaufman had driven away by the time Reynolds went out to her car to find the pamphlet was a cartoon titled “Boo,” that focused on the evils of witches and their danger to Christians.
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