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This is the category where your questions about witches and witchcraft as a spiritual path should go. Based on an ancient shamanistic way of life, witchcraft is a spiritual system known as "The Craft of the Wise" and were a valuable part of villages and communities. Practitioners were the healers and leaders of their people. Modern witches follow the cycles of the sun, the moon and the seasons of the earth for guidance and knowledge. Most, but not all witches practice some form of magic in its true meaning.

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Who is a witch supposed to have dealings with?

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A witch is commonly believed to have dealings with supernatural entities such as spirits, deities, or the Devil, depending on cultural beliefs. Additionally, witches may have encounters with other witches, either as mentors or as members of covens for magical practices and rituals.

Witches are all women?

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No, witches can be of any gender. The term "witch" traditionally refers to someone who practices witchcraft, regardless of their gender.

Is there black magic in pyramid?

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No, there is no evidence to support the existence of black magic in pyramids. Pyramids were built by ancient civilizations for various purposes, such as tombs or religious structures, and do not possess any inherent mystical or supernatural powers.

What skin problem do witches have?

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There is no specific skin problem associated with witches. Witches are fictional characters often portrayed with various physical attributes, but skin problems are not typically part of their depiction.

Does Satan possess unlimited Powers even to kill a person?

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Christian belief attributes a great deal of power to Satan, but always assumes that Satan will not use those powers to kill anyone. In the Book of Job, God instructed Satan to do any manner of evil to the person of Job, but to stop short of actually killing him. The Books of Matthew and Luke say that Satan lifted Jesus up and placed him on a pinnacle of the temple - if Satan can do that, he can pick an ordinary person up and drop him from a great height.

Christianity has more to gain by focussing our fear of Satan on the spiritual and eternal hellfire than on the possibility that he might kill someone..

Are witches satanists?

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This question does not have a clear answer, if one is a worshipper of Satan (s)he could still do whatever they feel like to do, as most of the humans normally do. Another things is depending on the Church/culture you worship Satan in/with. For example Satanism described by Anton Szandor Lavey (Satanic church) is ment to be an ideology. Of course it has rules and holidays and certain ideas. But one can not clearly state how people perceive ideas and the written words, nor how they respond to it.

How do you do black magic?

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Black Magic is a misnomer, magic has no polarity, it is simply power.

There are two mistaken but common usages for the term "black magic".

-The first is any use of unexplainable energies seen to have "supernatural" basis, and believed by some to "come from the Devil" or be "the Devil's work".

This a religious prejudice, and patently false. Most of the people practicing the Craft are Pagans, followers of any one of a large number of spiritual paths that include magic in their lives. None of them believe in the "Devil", he is an entity of the Abrahamic religions.

-The second is in reference to any "harmful" use of magic.

Witches like everyone else in the world are human and subject to all the good, bad and indifferent motivations of the rest of humankind.

An ethical practitioner spends a large amount of his/her time checking and rechecking the motivation behind their use of magic. We all make mistakes, but at least with an ethical practitioner of magic, you can be certain we take full responsibility for our actions.

How do you cast spells?

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Actually, as long as you believe in and are focused on the spell and the power of magick you can cast a spell...

There are spells you can find online with detailed instructions. Try Google searching things like witchcraft. Most things you could want to cast a spell for can be found online. I also recommend finding pagan or Wiccan forums.

How did they punish witches?

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When witch- hunting in Europe was at its height, all of these were thought to be signs of being a witch. Having a mole or mark on your body, owning a black cat, talking to yourself, talking to animals, spinning around, having red hair or freckles, and having unusual eyes. As you can see, few people were safe!

How is Aslan's power the opposite of the witch?

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Aslan could breathe life, make people feel braver and stronger, and could heal. The witch would freeze people, manipulate them, and would do them harm. The witch left the land under ice and snow. Aslan made it green and grow.

Where did witches start?

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No one truly knows that answer. It's known to go back as far as words were written and spoken. The term witchcraft, however, came from the Celtic word "Wicca."

What is the witches mark?

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A Point of View : The greatest challenge to the churches that ran society was an increase in knowledge, Ironically brought about by its own position as the bearer of the knowledge of man. The results of enlightenment with all of its bumps and warts so to speak would eventually topple the life and death hold that it had over the people most of whom were illiterate and completely uneducated. So dedicated was the Catholic church to the ignorance of the ordinary man that it did its mass in Latin to make sure that there was a minimum amount of thought. There are however people in every society Both male and female that stand out Either through their ability to deal with the philosophical implication of an argument or the ability to see nature for what it is ie, the Earth revolves around the Sun. or any number of understandings about the mathematical and scientific order of things. There is a fact of life and that is that in any powerful organization the hardest nut ends up at the top of the heap, and they fear the truth. They depend on ignorance for their continued authority. So those that would oppose the church was marked a heretic or witch. So I suppose the mark of the witch would be closely associated with one that wishes to find a the path to enlightenment. The basis for the classic "witch hunts" were to purge the "church" of those that did acts that the church did not condone. These acts were predicated on the verse in Deuteronomy that reads... De 18:10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, Now the "witchcraft" translation that was common among the English of the 1500's was not the same thing that the Hebrew word means. The Hebrew word means a "mediums" so popular a couple of years back..those who commune with the dead. Wicca today is more of a nature worship, complete with it's own set of rituals and solomn events. This "mark of the witch" is superstition developed by the hierarchy of the Church for their own purposes. There is no physical mark distinguishable on the practitioners of Wicca.

Are there any witchcraft stores in Michigan?

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There are these types of shops in Michigan, but not in Saginaw. You can contact Wiccan groups for leads to supply stores.

Why was there a witch craze in the 17th century?

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Witch-hunting in the 17th centuryYes, especially in Calvinist parts of the world, such as Cromwellian England, parts of Hungary and New England witch-hunting was an evil past-time in the period from about 1600-1720 or so.

There certainly was but the question is Why?

It was also strong in France & other Catholic countries.

Hugh Trevor-Roper writes (in 1959) of a "General Crisis in the 17th Centuries" characterised by wars, epidemics & poor harvests as well as ideological conflicts & sees the surge in witchcraft persecutions as one aspect of this. The clash between opposing Christains was far more destructive with the Thirty Years War resulting in a 20-255 casualty rate in Germany.

Did witches exist in Mexico?

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There are historical and archeological evidences that there was some form of Witchcraft or a Mystic Religion practiced in Mexico.

Not only in Mexico, but all around the world there existed many Mystic Religions similar to Witchcraft.

These Mystic Religions were not originally called Witchcraft, since the word Witchcraft was introduced by the Vatican around 1600.

Are magic schools real?

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Well, there was a man named Blaise Pascal, who created Pascal's Wager. He says, "It is better to believe in a religion and find out you're wrong, then to not believe in religion and find out you're wrong." What he is trying to say is if you believe in a religion(I'll be using Catholicism for my examples) and you believe in all the good stuff waiting for you if you're good, you have something to strive for. When you don't believe, your life becomes pointless.

What did Sarah Goode do?

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Sarah Goode was a beggar in Salem because her husband had been very irresponsible with his money. She was one the first to be accused in the Salem witch panic because if her position in society. She was convicted and subsequently executed on July 19, 1692.

What were witches in shakespeare's time?

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Normal people cause witches don't ageist they are just a myth, or that people who went to church so the right a letter to accuse someone off being a witch, after being accused the church people / who ever is in charge would drop the accused into water if they floated they were a witch and if they sunk they would be human, people only said they were witch is so that they wouldn't have to drown and die

How old is Samantha on Bewitched?

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The audience never really finds out how old she is. In season 1, episode 22, Darrin asks Samantha when her birthday is and how old she is. Her birthday is on June 6, but she never admits the year, and is troubled by the question of her age. In addition, Conversations between Samantha and her mother Endora suggest she has lived for a very long time because they are witches.
This question was never directly answered on the show. It was, however, hinted that Samantha was alive during the original Salem Witch Trials and was around as far back as the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So, a safe estimate would be at least several hunderd years old.

Are sorcery and witchcraft the same?

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It usually depends on which culture you look at, but, in most cases, sorcery was looked apon as "white magic" which can be used as protection against witchcraft AKA "black magic."

A Pagan PerspectiveSorcery is the practice of what was once called Alchemy.

Witchcraft, (aka the Craft, Wicca and in some cases Paganism) is the following of an earth base belief system which includes but is not necessarily exclusive to the use of magic (high and low), Ritual celebration of the cycles of the year and phases of the moon, as well as herbalism and scrying. Contrary to what you see in movies and read in fiction, we are basicly good people, who live, work and play the same as others.

Is witchcraft satanic?

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Modern witches would give that a resounding "NO," arguing that Satan is a Judeo-Christian concept in which they simply don't believe.

One might argue, however, that IF Satan is indeed the spirit of evil, then simply refusing to recognize him doesn't mean one isn't doing his work. Some people who are naturally inclined to mischief may study witchcraft into order to gain power to amplify that mischief.

However, as far as ceremonially worshipping Satan, conjuring him, kissing his butt, having sex with him or his minions, receiving secret marks on the body, signing contracts in blood, etc., that's all made up by people who were trying to whip up hatred of witches. Unfortunately, a few wacky people will try to do that, in a sort of rebellion against conventional religion, so the anti-witch crowd gets a little ammunition to claim, "There you are!" Rockers and goths (though not all of them) are particularly problematic in this regard.

The great bulk of witches practice a sort of Earth Magic (or "magick," to distinguish it from illusionism) which is totally benign: no hexes, curses, causing plagues, miscarriages or the like.

Who started magic?

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Paganism, Witchcraft & magic are as old as mankind. Anything, beyond your understanding or comprehension can be considered magic. A cell phone to a primitive is magic.

When mankind first started being self aware, we looked beyond ourselves and needed answers to things like, where does the sun go at night? How do we insure it will come back? How do we heal wounds and illnesses? How do we find food?

Eventually members of the group who discovered things, like which plants helped an upset stomach, where to find water, what the migration patterns of the local animals were and other things, became the ones others turned to for answers. These were the Wise Ones...

The cycles of the seasons where in our blood and instincts, as they governed our survival. The wise ones were the ones who kept track of the right time to plant, and harvest, ensuring the continuance of the people.

As we became more evolved the amount of knowledge expanded, and those with the answers learned a few tricks of their own.

If someone tells you a certain herb will cure your cut, you may or may not believe them, if they are well respected and do a little spell/prayer over the cut at the same time as using the herb, you tend to believe... Particularly if it works... you then tell others of the "power" of the Wise One... Eventually a name gets made, and expectation are raised...

It is a commonly accepted fact that your mind has a strong influence on your body... If you believe in something it has a better chance of working. the Wise Ones figured this out early on, so a little "showmanship" helped their reputation...

As spell/prayers/magic/ became standardized and passed on from generation to generation, the words became of equal importance to the practical application...

Magic became accepted as something that worked...

Science is today what magic once was, a practical, evolving set of standard results from repeated experimentation...

Even modern medicine can't tell us everything the mind is capable of, so some of us still believe in and practice Magic...

Gerald Gardner originally started Wicca, but it is unknown who actually started magic. Some say that it was created by the Gods, and was descended upon the mortals for being faithful to the Gods. It is also said that on the seventh day that God was resting, that Satan created a witch and put him on Earth to wreak havoc.

But in other words, it is really unknown who originally started it.

How do you spell egyptins?

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I think you answered that youself!