What can witches do that is harmful to you?

Answer 1

It depends on the type of witchcraft. Curses and such could hurt you, also, you should be watchful of what you try since some occult stuff can really backfire upon you First let me address your question... No Witchcraft can't hurt you.

Next let me explain... Witchcraft (one of a number of practices and pathways under the Paganism umbrella) is an earth based belief system. I can not speak for every practitioner out their, anymore than one Christian or one Muslim can speak for every other follower of their faith. However, all of the practitioners of my acquaintance, myself included, are good, caring, ethical, generous people who work with love and respect for themselves, their families and friends, as well as the planet itself.

We may not and do not cast for or on anyone with out their knowledge and express permission.

Not that we need it, but most of us work within the karmic form of checks and balances known as the Rule of Three - That which you send out WILL return to you threefold. If the rest of the world understood and worked within this edict we would see a lot less, prejudice, hatred, cheating, purposefully harmful or unethical behaviour.

The fact we are misunderstood and portrayed in fiction as malicious, uncaring, spiteful and harmful people says more to the lack of knowledge of others than it does to our own behaviour. There are centuries of this sort of treatment of others in human history, if you doubt it, research the treatment of "heretics" during the inquisition, the Jews, in the Middle East , Japanese in North America during the second world war or Muslims in the US today. Most people are just people, no one group should be painted with the same brush as the worse person who has ever "claimed" to be one of them.

Answer 2

Only black majick can harm people you don't want to use black majick. You don't. It will not be nice.

A Pagan Perspective

I'd like to first clear up a common misconception. Magic does NOT have a polarity. "Good" magic, "Bad" magic, "White" magic, "Black" magic, are all terms given by outsiders to describe something they do not fully understand.

Magic is simply stated the manipulation of naturally occurring powers, by the hand and will of a trained practitioner. It is the ethics, morality and manner in which the practitioner uses the power that people interpret as being "good" or "bad".

Magical practitioner of all stripes, be they solitary or part of a group, within or without a spiritual path, well trained or just beginners, are at their core, nothing more, nor less than human. Humans can be altruistic, ethical, and scrupulously honest, or manipulative, vicious, and down right nasty. But more commonly humans fall somewhere in the middle. An ethical practitioner, does not claim to be perfect, but they do spend a goodly amount of their time, checking and rechecking their motivations when they practice.

The practice of magic and/or witchcraft, can be used to harm others.

However, generally speaking it is not used in that manner. The gathering of materials and power, the research involved to find a spell or ritual that has an excellent chance of working as intended, and then the energy of doing the "working" is quite extensive and it takes a particularly single minded person to do all that in the intent of harming someone else.

Add to that a little thing known as the "Threefold Rule" which basically says "That which you send out, will return to you threefold."

This is sort of a safe guard for those practicing magic. It does not eliminate the possibility that a practitioner will use magic to harm another, but it does insure that the people who do use magic to harm others will themselves be held accountable.

So it could be said that yes, magic used to harm someone does in fact harm people, not just the one cast upon, but also, and to a larger extent, the one doing the casting.

Answer 3

Certain kinds can, for instance, trying to communicate with demons etc. Doing black magick can have terrible results too. If you're Wiccan, the rule of 3x can end up killing you if you do a lot of black magick or harm to others even if you're doing it carefully. If someone else tried to do it to you, they're more likely to drop dead than you are.

Answer

If the person is hateful and resentful enough, you will die just before they will. But usually the person will get something like a broken bone or something about as serious whereas the caster will die.

Answer 4

They can throw a spanner at your head. OK, I'm just kidding.

A witch can cast malevolent, harmful spells as well as benevolent ones. This is directing harmful energy to change someones life for the worse. These are often called curses, which is the opposite of a blessing. Many call bad spells a hex, though hexe in Old German means Witch. Witch derived form the root word 'to know' or 'wise one'.

Answer 5

Modern day witches rarely if ever harm anyone.

Most of us believe in the "Rule of Three" which says... "That which you send out will return to you three fold."