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What is Witchcraft?

To:  alt.religion.wicca, alt.traditional.witchcraft
From:  Raven BlackBane 
Subject:  Re: What is Witchcraft?
Date:  2 Jul 2000 14:07:26 GMT

Avalanche382  wrote:
>
> What is Witchcraft exactly?  Can somebody tell me what Witches do?  
> I'm confused.  :(
>

Trying to explain what something is might be harder then explaining what
it ain't.  Well one thing is for sure, it ain't Wiccan since they fail
to meet the required standard of WitchCraft, and that being burning
culdrons and the like.  

Witches do not, repeat DO NOT, worship any deities, none.  The "craft"
in WitchCRAFT is just that, a "craft"; it's a practice not a worship.
People such as Silver RavenWolf, Buckland, and that sort only write
garbage fantasy books in order to suck the money out of fools, mostly
young teen girls with mental problems who "think" that magic is their
revenge and the way out of their pathetic lives.

As stated, WitchCraft is a practice, the practice of sorcery.  Unlike
Wicca which is "the cult of WitchCraft", WitchCraft has no rules of
three.  If one tosses a rock at another, only the other can toss back
three rocks more; the rocks don't magically fly back unless ordered by
the other.

Wicca is "the cult of WitchCraft".  This doesn't mean a bunch of real
Witches get together to form a cult and then worship that cult.  No,
Wicca is a cult that worships something outside the norm of what they
are, like Heaven's Gate that worshiped a comet.  Just because they
worship the comet don't mean they are comets themselves; no more so then
Gothic people that worship the vampire: This don't make them vampires
either though they can "simulate" the fact they are vampires by going
through the motion of sleeping by day in a wooden coffin, drinking human
blood stolen from a hospital's blood bank, freaking out over a silver
cross and of course dropping dead if a wooden stake is rammed through
their heart; that would kill anyone.  Does all this make them real
vampires.  No.  

So much so for Wiccans who simply "emulate" or "simulate" the acts of a
real Witch.  As with all simulations, they are virtual and unreal with
zero powers, whereas a real Witch has real powers because she doesn't
worship it, she practices it like any other art.
  
To answer your question, WitchCraft is the practice of sorcery.  To be a
real Witch, you must first find the power within yourself and then use
it as you see fit, be it for good or evil (which are relative terms in
the eye of the beholder, such as shooting Hitler would be good to the
British and such while evil to the Germans).

blackbane@anneli.com 
http://anneli.com/blackbane
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cause she doesn't
worship it, she practices it like any other art.
  
To answer your question, WitchCraft is the practice of sorcery.  To be a
real Witch, you must first find the power within yourself and then use
it as you see fit, be it for good or evil (which are relative terms in
the eye of the beholder, such as shooting Hitler would be good to the
British and such while evil to the Germans).

blackbane@anneli.com 
http://anneli.com/blackbane
IRC : /server anneli.com #witchcraft
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Hi there Tyagi,

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