Witch gets 'burned' by Supreme Court
Wiccan priestess angry that Christians favored for prayers at county meetings
Posted: October 11, 20054:44 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs

A practicing witch who sought to have her prayers heard at government meetings in a Richmond, Va., suburb had no magic before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justices rejected an appeal by Cyndi Simpson, a Wiccan priestess and member of the Broom Riders Association, who wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the "creator of the universe" in Chesterfield County, Va. The rest