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Wicca In Modern times Witches are closely linked to the religion of Wicca. And is mostly followed by women. Many women in this religion believe themselves to be whitchs.This "Religion" was started by Gerald Gardener. The religion is coven based and each coven would have a priest or teacher. If the history of who thought that teacher and then who taught the ones before them were traced it would lead back to Gardner himself. As I have said some class themselves as witches but some don't. And they aren't the traditional witches we see in movies that are all powerful evil things. Although some wiccans claim to cast spells they are more like prayers and don't send chairs flying accross rooms but affect auras and feelings. Obviously things that cant show weather or not the spell has actually worked. While on a web page written by a Wiccan I noticed they were trying to clear a few misconseptions up. So I tought I would also tell you about these misconceptions. Firstly they do not worship saten. Saten is a christen thing and they aren't christens there wiccans. Secondly on the whole Good/bad whitch thing its just the same as saying is that person walking across the street bad? The do not do blood sacrifices but do sometimes sacrifices things that are theirs . eating for example. They are not a Cult because they do not follow one leader. And they do not always wear black but when they do they do it because they think it helps keep the energy inside the body. Old Which scares In the olden days (about the middle ages) Women who were thought of as witches were killed mostly painfully. But in most cases they weren't witches or even Wiccans but the local folk didn't really care. They used any excuse for people being witches. From a wart on their face to people around them dying even if their naiboughour had an accident they could be accused. If one of the locals was annoyed at someone. Perhaps because a certain woman would not marry him he would accuse her of being a witch to get her killed. And although they had a type of trial to decided if the woman was a witch. It was not an accurate way of finding out and even if she won the test she still ended up in a bad way. For example they would have test like chucking a woman in deep water if she floated she was a witch but if she drowned she wasn't unfortunately if she wasn't it didn't matter much because she would already be dead from drowning. TV and Films Deferent films portray witches in deferent ways. But most base the foundation of their theory's of the old beliefs that got women killed. And that was that witches had supernatural powers and could do thing like move objects without touching them and firing electric bolts from their hands. At first they also followed the old theory that all witches were evil. However that theory has become less and less prominent as time passes and now we have many good witches on TV such as willow and Tara in Buffy And The 3 sisters in Charmed. Another thing that has advanced with time is TV shows and Movies showing more of their theory about witches where as in early television it would show an evil witch but not really exspain anything about her. Witches lately in TV can be divided into two theory's one is that People are born witches and have powers automatically this theory is used on the show "Charmed" the other is that whichcraft is something you learn and the only way to do magic is through spells as in Buffy. Although even in charmed they still have to use spell but they do have powers as well. |
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