What is mark of the witch?

Answer 1

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.