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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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How do you become a spell casting wizard?
To be honest, the term "wizard" doesn't really exist. Both male and female spell casters are usually called witches. One can become a witch by practicing the religion Wicca for a year and a day. However, one does not have to be a Wiccan to cast a spell. All you need is the spell and the materials required. Just follow the directions, and you've cast the spell!
A Pagan Perspective
Just for the record, not all people who call or consider themselves Witches are Wiccan. Nor do all people who cast spells call or consider themselves Witches.
Casting a spell is simply the manipulation of naturally occurring powers (magic) by the hand and will of a practitioner.
Anyone willing to do the research, and practice is capable of casting spells. Part of that research is learning to use the "power" in an ethical and honest manner.
Yes and no.
If your image of a wizard is Harry Potter and Dumbledore then no they're not real.
A real life wizard is basically a person who has developed and trained their mind to better control their body, or "mind over matter" as it is more commonly known.
A real wizard is able to raise his/her strength levels dramatically, cool/heat up their body dramatically, ignore pain itself, and an infinite amount more.
It takes years to develope even some of these abilities.
There is no such thing as a "real life wizard."
How do you know if someone have witchcraft on your husband?
Does he have an uncommon infection or fell strange pains. If so, evil magick. If he is unnormally happy or jittery the person might have healed his soul. If none then nothing happened to him. Look up my spelling of magick for more info on this.
What does god think about witchcraft?
As most of the practicing witches I know are polytheistic, I'd have to say no.
Not only does the Craft not go against god, it works with many of them, goddesses too.
Ours tends to be an inclusive spiritual path, we respect other belief systems, we just don't follow all of what others say.
This does not mean however that there are not other views. Some spiritual paths believe that their way is not only the right way, but the only way so they tend to have a problem with the Craft.
Where to get wands in the Philippines?
The best magic wands are the ones you make for yourself!
A good book on the magic of woods and their uses will give you a place to begin. Adding gems, crystals, metals etc. will fine tune the wand. You will need another book on the uses and magics of the additionals.
No.
Another Thought
Sorcery is the practice of magic and magical science without a connection to a spiritual path. The study and practice of Alchemy was one of most commonly practiced forms of sorcery.
Magic is the manipulation of naturally occurring forces by the hand and will of an ethical (hopefully) practitioner.
The connection to a spiritual path tends to make the ethical part of the equation a bit easier to achieve.
Historically, the studies of science tend to have practitioners doing things "because they can." in stead of deciding whether or not they "should' do them.
What are the names of the witches in?
No names are given to the witches other than to their leader, Hecate, in the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare (Baptized April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616).
Specifically, three witches are in the play's opening act and interact with Macbeth (d. August 15, 1057) until after the murder of Banquo in Act 3. Throughout, they remain unnamed. Their leader appears in Act 3, just before the witches' final meeting with Macbeth. She is identified as Hecate at that point.
Are bugs involved in witchcraft?
A lot of witchcraft is nature based, so yes, insects can be involved with it.
Yes. "Witchcraft" is nothing more than using the powers of the mind to manifest your desires in reality. The ancient people who worshiped the old gods (Zeus, Amon Ra, Odin, Thor, Aphrodite, etc.) knew this well, since their lives were based upon nature. There were many deities who instructed mankind on the ways of witchcraft.
Christianity turned these original gods into the "Demons of Hell" and made witchcraft "evil" in order to gain complete control of society and scare people away from this ancient knowledge.
Is witchcraft done on Halloween?
Yes, anyone can do it too.
You can be a Christian witch if you want to!
Witchcraft today is mainly associated with the religion of Wicca.
But a wiccan doesn't have to be a witch and a witch doesn't have to be a wiccan.
Witches are very different from how they are commercialized.
Type wicca in google to find out more
Blessed be.
How do you know if the lady is a witch?
The idea that a witch can be identified by marks on the body is erroneous. This idea arose from the witch hunts in Europe and the America's. It is completely false. As a witch is defined principally by a set of beliefs and some ritual religious practice, the best way someone can tell if they are a witch is to learn about the belief structure and see if it fits the way you think about the universe and the nature of reality
Most times I would agree, but currently I believe I have seen stranger things in a stranger world.
This is a broad question depending on religion, belief, and experience. There are those who would say one way, and others who say...... basing the idea off of paganism and Wicca that it is not possible. I must say..... I've experienced enough to say everything is possible and if fate so plans it, a bloodline of potential spiritual gifts and the ability to use magic could leave you with a mark. Now mind you this is not stating the previous answer is wrong. Along their lines, they are perfectly correct. But as you are asking this more of a spiritual format than a religious, I will say yes. It is possible. I was born with one on my palms and every palm reader I come across is bewildered by it. I still have yet to figure out what it means entirely. But it is a mark based upon potential in spiritual power, and a past person I used to be. As well it is a symbol of the ancient bloodline that are my ancestors.
No, the Tarot cards are a deck of cards originally designed in the 15th century for playing a trick taking card game played mainly in European countries. Tarot cards began to be used in divination or tarot reading during the 18th century.
There is no magic involved and every one of us has the ability to do this. Most of us have to develop it, but it is there in each of us.
Witches do not have a big sign on them, so most likely, most people have encountered at the very least one at sometime in their life.
What were believed to be the powers of witches?
what powers do witches have ?????????
i need to know for my humanities work at school ????
witches have elments for power eg:
earth they can bring a flower slightly back to life
fire they can warm things up and create a candle in their hand
wind make it windier if the concentrate and use a windball
ice make something colder
all they can send tremors and gain eachothers powers.
they can all do spells like binding and levatation but only with practice they can do many other spells too.
Yes anyone can be a Wiccan you do not have to be a blood relative of another Wiccan! Anyone can join Wicca! You just have to follow some rules just like a christian! Satan does not exist in the religion Wicca! I just joined Wicca 3 days ago(it is 12/5/09 now) that is how I know you can. Plus I have been searching the internet since I became a Wiccan and everything said that "anyone can be a Wiccan."
Well traditionally a witch is supposed to be a master of the black magic and able to do things a normal being cannot. Using the elements as well as making those often dangerous potions seem to be their strengths. I also believe they are thought to live forever as they have ways of making themselves young each time they believe themselves to be "ugly"
How did the idea of witches riding broomsticks begin?
The stereotype of a "witch" on a broom is not a realistic one. Levitation is not easy, and not common.
There are a couple of possible explanations for the misconception however.
Witches at one time were thought to be women, often herbal healers who lived without the support/protection of a husband (either widows, or spinsters). In the times that these ideas formed a woman was closely associated with various forms of housework (sweeping - therefore brooms became one of the symbols). It is possible that there was a minor truth in this, as many practitioners of magic used (and still do) a staff or wand to channel power... it is easy enough to disguise a staff in a broom.
The idea of "flying" may have its origin in the practice of astral projection. The ability to "send" your astral self (kind of like a soul) elsewhere, either on this plain or on higher plains. There are old recipes for "flying ointment" that include hallucinogens, and mind altering plant substances.
Modern Witches do not actually "fly" on brooms, but some of us do practice astral projection, without the "flying ointment".
I'm fining out that it is! Don't do it.. Follow Jesus, I was huge into zodiac before I was saved. Just one of the many things Jesus Christ has redeemed me of...
Where were nineteen people hung for making accusations about witchcraft?
Between June and September, in 1692, in Salem Mass, 19 people were hung on the charge of Witchcraft. They were accused of Witchcraft. They were not the ones that did the accusing.
Giles Corey was pressed death by stones for not pleading guilty to the charge of Witchcraft. Other people died while imprisoned.
Because of the understanding of the Universe and how it works.
Magic offers great knowledge and power to and it is real and practiced from the begin of the world by humans.
It gives you the power of changing things and have power over the elements.
If you want to start learning, you can but occult books and start chatting with people of similar interest.
It is suggested to stay away from black magic.
What age can you become a witch at?
There is no age limit. I personally have been learning the craft as long as I can remember. I started learning from my grandmother and my shaman before I could read, I have been studying, on my own and with several teachers, since my eighth year, practicing, with others and eventually on my own, since my tenth year, teaching for thirty years, and a high priestess for a circle for more than 15 years. In that time I have encountered people who have come to the craft from a very earl age to sometime in their 60s, so as I said, there is no age limit.
Correction for the one below. He or she speaks of Wiccans; not witches. Real witches aren't all that different. We're naturally great at poetry, but we don't speak in hymns. Hmm... what else... some witches are extremely lazy.
~Kidiu
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Witches do all the things an average person would do. Apart from that witches celebrate the cycles of nature.
Among Witches there are special greetings. Some of them are "Merry Meet!", "Blessed Be!", "Brightest Blessings", "Love and Light" and so many...
How were the witchcraft linked to the devil?
It wasn't. There is absolutely no connection.
The Christian faith pressed that if you worshiped any other religion than Christianity, you were a pawn, follower, and worshiper of Satan.
