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Witchcraft
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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Mermaids are not real, so there are no spells for mermaids. It is all made up and comes from fairy tales.
What type of people were involved in witchcraft?
Witchcraft is a very large field. In my lifetime I have met people from many places, many ethnic groups, many age groups and many socioeconomic groups that practice one of dozens of forms of witchcraft.
It would be nearly impossible to make a description wide enough and all encompassing enough to accurately give you a picture of the people involved in witchcraft.
The best I can do is give you three examples.
1) This person is a young man, raised in a Wiccan family. Both of his parents are Wiccan, he is an only child still in high school. He is middle class, lives in a large metropolitan area, likes soccer, volunteers at the local animal shelter, is a straight A student and is working on getting a scholarship to enable him to take veterinarian medicine when he graduates. He is open about his spiritual path, and has friends who are Wiccan, Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
2) This person is a man in a federal prison, he was an addict in his younger days, and has found his spiritual path while incarcerated. He is of a First Nations tribe, and is studying shamanism so that, upon his release he may return to his home town and work with the local shaman as an apprentice. He strongly believes h8is personal history will help him to help others.
3) This person is a woman close to retirement age. She is married but has no children. She has spent an entire lifetime within a Family Tradition Pagan Circle, and was raised to keep her spiritual path a secret. She has worked in many jobs, lived in many places, uses her energies to better the world and the situations of the people around her no matter what their spiritual path is. She has spent the last twenty-five years teaching young people, one or two at a time, the ways of her tradition in such a manner that they can find and follow their own personal spiritual path.
What is the school of witchcraft and wizardry in California?
Standford University.
Haven't you ever been there?
Although the moving staircases can get rather confusing, it is all together a great wizarding school. Their known for their broomstick flying classes I suggest you take that class, it comes in great handy.
What are the main activities of a witch?
There are too many witches to know. Living is my best guess. I know personally I enjoy driving randomly just to see the countryside listening to good music of whatever kind I think of at the time. I enjoy playing video games when bored, spending time with my dog cat and fiance as often as possible and seeing my cousin from time to time. We witches are human. That's that.
What does a cocoon symbolise in witchcraft?
The cocoon is usually a symbol of renewal and/or transformation. The cocoon represents the beginning of such changes.
In a tea-leaf reading the appearance of a cocoon symbol is interpreted as a period of waiting before a major change.
What potions were Witches commonly known for?
Witches don't make potions. Well, real witches don't. They're not green, or ugly. They look like regular people. They hurt people by doing witchcraft to summon spirits. In the Caribbean, these spirits are known as duppies. Duppies can kill you in a dream that has you being pushed off a cliff by a duppy, and never waking up from your sleep. If you survive this dream and wake up,you'll find bruises on your skin.
A Pagan Perspective
Some witches do in fact make potions. The potions made are not the sort you read about in fiction or see on TV or in the movies.
The potions I make, usually (but not always) are made for healing purposes.
A mixture of herbs, oils and other ingredients known to have specific healing properties, are combined to form either something that may be ingested or is better used topically, depending on the need.
There are other potions made for other reasons, such as: anointing, purifying, and consecrating. There is even a recipe for a "Flying" potion, but I have my doubts this was one made by a real practitioner, nor would I ever try it as several of the "ingredients" are highly toxic, hallucinogenic, or outright deadly.
According to J.K. Rowling, brooms were chosen as the objects to enchant to fly because they were easy to hide.
Fictional witches ride brooms, real witches ride more mundane things, like cars, trucks, motorcycles, horses and bicycles.
What is the connection between witches and patchouli oil?
Patchouli is often used by neopagan witches to tap into the energies of the Earth element. As a symbol of the nurturing power of minerals, plants and trees, the strong scent of patchouli oil is thought to reinforce spells for healing, wealth, protection, fertility and sexuality. Some witches consider patchouli the most powerful of all essential oils for spellcraft.
Because it is associated with the Earth and is thought to repel evil spirits and vengeful ghosts, patchouli powder is sometimes called "graveyard dirt". Both the dust and the essential oil come from the tropical patchouli plant, Pogostemon cablin.
The plant is also used to make perfumes, but patchouli-based blends are often considered "cheap" because the intense forest-like smell of patchouli tends to overwhelm the scents of all other ingredients and ruin the perfume's complexity.
Is studying witchcraft mean you are going to hell?
it depends are you doing it and do you believe that Jesus Christ came to earth to die for our sins and rose from the grave 3 days later?
What is the opposite gender of witch?
When addressing either male or female it is still Witch. The word Warlock translates to "oathbreaker". If you call a male Witch a warlock, he's going to get angry at you. The word Warlock was made popular by movies and media. (There is no such thing as a "warlock"). It sounds very mysterious and magical and makes for good movies. *shrug* As usual, Hollywoods poetic license I suppose.
Another answer
* WITCH is genderless- it applies to all who practise the craft. Also the term Warlock, if it is used, would refer to an alchemist. An old form of magic and science that was blended together and studied the natural laws of the planet and nature and ways to change one thing (lead) into another (gold). Now days warlock isn't really used anymore and so the word Witch is used for both genders and is universally excepted.
There is no gender for the term Witch. Both male and female the word Witch is used.
The words Warlock or Wizard have different meanings than the word Witch means.
Does anyone have a list of spells from Merlin?
I'm afraid Merlin wasn't a historical figure. I do, however, own a spellbook. And it's still in the making! You yourself can gather spells. The one's you will find most are those with Wicca.
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The Merlin tradition of Paganism has been around for quite some time now. There are numerous books available through your local library, new age and metaphysical book stores on the subject. Most if not all will contain a list of spells, the ingredients necessary for and the manner in which the spells are cast.
Please be advised, magic is real, if you are undertaking magic without previous training, you should do extensive study and research on the impact your magic will have, on you, on others and on the world at large. Examine your motivations and desires carefully, and always work in accordance of the Rule of Three.
WikiAnswers will not teach you the left-hand path. Using magic to harm others is the same as using physical force to harm them. This is not something that we believe in, and we do not give advice on how to harm people or yourself.
How much can someone charge to remove a black magic spell?
no such thing as black magic, some peolple like myself are protected and are born with wisdom . dont take any notice of these people trying to covince you and make money, i have brocken any spell and bad thought of you, never let anyone tell you that you have been cursed, if anyone says to you , you are cursed look them in the eye smile with feeling and say , im afraid not sunshine, i did you first
Why was Kepler's mother accused of witchcraft?
1. She was a healer and herbalist
2. She had a baddispositionand was quarrelsome -according to her own son - and so fitted in with what even today we would still think of as a typical 'bad' witches personality profile
3. She lived in an era when the Church persecuted any one who had a free mind - and called them a heretic - which literally means having the ability to choose. The Chruch didn't want anyone to question their form ofsorcery
4. She lived in an era when women were marginalised in society and when successful herbal healing skills were made cheaply available to the poor people and so undermined the Church led physcian's training. Only men could train asphysiciansand charged high fees for dubious remedies which included arsenic/ lead and rarely included even seeing the patient - bit like today really when we get treated according to blood test results and urine samples - regardless of how we feel.
5. She was unfortunate enough to live during the Little Ice Age - when bad weather caused crop failures - and the farmers and afected communities wanted to blame someone for the poor weather - so descended on people marginalised insocietycalling them witches. Google "The Light was returning before Darkness: Tales of the Witch Hunt and Climate Change"for more information on this
6. She was brought up by her aunt - who was burnt at the stake for being a witch - in those days people felt witchcraft ran in families whereas in truth its more likely the independent thinking style which was common within a family and threatened the church.
7. There had been a great comet in the sky in 1577- and a few years later a lunar eclipse - both of which Kepler witnessed as a young boy. He then went on to become a famous astronomer so 'clearly' was the son of a witch - witches were thought to cause astronomical events so burn the witch!
8. Kepler refused to convert to Catholicism - so therefore his relatives would take the brunt of the Church's wrath - although in fairness the Protestants were just as vicious with their persecution of women
Where can you find a witchcraft store?
Try witchvox.com They have a huge list of metaphysical stores by state or country. Or you can look in your local yellow pages (phone book) under "occult" or "metaphysical" some stores opt to not be included in the phone book but others do and you can find a lot of great places that way.
Yes? a gathering to meet and or perform rituals. Six Wiccans chatting at a coffee shop would also fall under this category.
What spell in witchcraft uses sticks tree limbs etc?
There is no set of "standard" spells in Witchcraft. There may be so many spells that uses "sticks tree limbs etc".
What are the five elaments of magic?
According to the teachings of my forefathers:
North- Earth
East- Air
South- Fire
West- Water
And in the centre of it all is the spirit
Thought to come from an old Anglo-Saxon word that meant "to twist or bend" it means those who bend fate to siut their needs,whether it was to heal or bring good luck to the community.
What happens when black magic spells are given in food?
Depending on whether you believe in magic or not, either nothing will happen or whatever that spell was for will happen. Normally, you would have to know there was a spell in the food for it to work on you, since it is all psychological.
There are a couple of meanings for "sage" so I will address the most obvious.
Sage, the plant, can not do magic on it's own, however as a component in a magic spell sage can be very powerful.
Sage, the person, in a pagan group is someone, usually a male, who has been studying and practicing magic for many years and has achieve "sage-hood" usually around the time that people retire from their mundane workplaces. (approx. 65 years old) Sages usually continue to learn and practice their magics their entire lives, so, yes, sages can and do do magic.
What to do when you think a witch is close?
Say hi? Most witches aren't going to hex you for no reason. They're regular people- firefighters and bankers and politicians and cake decorators.
