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Wonder Woman in my mind, and the quiz showed me as Spider Man! Is there a BellaOnline Superheroine? Lisa!

Hi Ian, why are they still seen as the 'bad guys'? (JOY)

The original Ninja had their roots in Tibet and China. It was a 'village art' strongly bound up with magick and unconventional combat, as opposed the Samurai ideal of 'honour' and a strict hierarchical structure. Ninja also used psychological warfare against the more numerous Samurai to instil a fear factor in any face-to �face encounter.

As a result of this they became seen as the counter-culture, which is usually feared and has all the Jungian �shadow� of that culture projected onto it. Not helped by some corrupt Ninja who did go into the criminal subculture due to reasons too numerous to go into in a short post. The Samurai ideals reached European and US soil first along with this perception of the Ninja. This was taken up by writers and film makers (particularly in the �80s) and only with the Stephen K Hayes and other researchers/practitioners did a more rounded picture of the origins and history of this particular form of Martial/spiritual art.

I have been practicing Ninpo , as it is more commonly called for a few years now and plan to cover it in an article when things calm down from the �spring madness� (New babies, run up to Beltaine, departmental re-arrangement at work etc.)