What is Witchcraft?
Written By: Ivy Michelle Summers 01-20-2007
 
..... What is witchcraft you ask?..In this day and age, more than ever before, the question keeps arising. People are more and more interested to know what witchcraft is.

.... Distantly derived from various pagan religions, mostly from the pre-christian era. . I would categorize witchcraft to fall somewhere between the essence of Earth structured religion, folk medicines, and natural forces of the will and mind.
... Defined by Aleister Crowley as " the art or science of causing change to occur in conformity with will"
Norse witchcraft is based on old Germanic Runic magic.
... These are magical devices, associated with sound, color, image, numbers, and forming a matrix of magical practice. They're used for magic, talismans, worship, astral projection, spiritual advancement, magical medicine and more. . In this the runes are like the Hebrew alphabet within the Bible and Jewish Qabalah. Runes are the building blocks to Norse witchcraft.
.... Various forms of pagan religions including Wicca, Celtic, Maya, Druids, Aztec and Yoruba, use, or in some way derive or their own magical similarities from the Runes magic... I use my own craft as a way to help me find balance and to
help others, either with health, or personal growth or sometimes as a astral divination. . Others use it for a precise reason to attain a personal gain, or to set a curse or harm another.
.. ..I'm sure some Asatrus would probably disagree with me blending other pagan magical crafts in my work. .But I find that to blend magical faiths works better for me, than to work by one set of rules, or recipes . Kind of like the old saying, " There is more than one way to skin a cat", or " One man's poison, is another man's elixir ". The same is true with magic in witchcraft. . What is important is the intent for the magic, the type of influences you use during your work and how you control, and direct magic with your will.
.... Witchcraft , Sorcery, Wizardry, Magick,Voodoo.
.... Whatever the name or term deemed to the magical meaning, one thing is clear, it is real and it is nothing to be messed with by the inexperienced.
 

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