What Is A Witch?

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What is a Witch?

What is a Witch?

     "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!”  The Wicked Witch of the
West...  One of the most notorious and stereotypical witches in all literature.
She had green skin, a big wart- covered nose, and a wide-brimmed black hat.  She
summoned a legion of monsters, stirred evil brews in her black cauldron, and
generally made life difficult for the fun-loving citizens of Oz.  She, and her
fellow “hags” tend to be seen in a rather comic light, despite their appearance,
and are usually seen around Halloween.  They are one of the two ideas that most
people hold of who witches are and what they do.  The other is that of the “
devil's whore” of Medieval Europe and Colonial Salem who were charged with
killing babies, celebrating “black masses,” and having sex orgies with Satan.
The modern Wiccan; a practitioner of the religion known as Wicca, Witchcraft, or
simply The Craft; resembles these “Witches” as much as a straw broom resembles
the Dirt Devil Upright.  The Craft is a religion based on the worship of a
supreme divine creator, the practice of magic, and a reverence for the earth and
all her inhabitants. Deity Concepts and Worship Practices
     "All religions are structures built on reverence of Deity.  Wicca is no
exception.  The Wicca acknowledge a supreme divine power, unknowable, ultimate,
from which the entire universe sprang,”  (Cunningham, 9).  This is a Witch's
concept of the Divine.  However, it is a distant, powerful image that is not
easily understood.  For the purpose of worship, the Wicca recognize the duality
of this power.  It is both male and female, good and evil, and therefore is
worshipped in the form of a Goddess and a God.  These are the primeval gods of
the ancient world, worshipped under names in many cultures:  Odin, Freya, Ra,
Ma'at, Zeus, Diana, Apollo, Kali, Shiva, Pele, and countless others.  Wiccans
believe that these are all, in reality, simply individual aspects of  one God
and one Goddess, rather than individual Deities.  Just as there are numerous
names for the Divine, so do Wiccans worship them in just as many ways.
     There are many different branches, called “traditions”, of The Craft,
most of which are based on the religious practices of one or more ancient
cultures.  There are Celtic Wiccans, Egyptian Wiccans, and Greek Wiccans.  One
of the newest traditions is a hybrid of Celtic Shamanism and the tribal
religions of Ancient America.  There is, however, a basic outline for conduc...

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