WITCHCRAFT QUOTES V

quotations about witches & witchcraft

Unlike the Abrahamic traditions, Witchcraft is not based upon a strict division of what is good and what is evil. Witches use nature to fuel their concept of the divine and in the world of nature there is no battle between good and evil. A lion is not "evil" because it kills the gazelle, and a deer is not "good" because it eats only plants. Nature is both cruel and beautiful at the same time.

SCARLET RAVENSWOOD

"Do Witches Believe in the Devil?", Arcane Alchemy, May 25, 2018

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It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

SILVER RAVENWOLF

To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov

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Witchcraft in 2017 is about women coming together, not about being torn apart. Whether it's Lana Del Rey getting her goth on or thousands coming together for the Women's March in January, the witches are rising -- excuse me while I go and fetch my broomstick.

LEONIE COOPER

"Witchcraft is the new feminism", NME, March 2, 2017


The light in her Gypsy eyes
Fenced with saffron tongues
As they burnt off her skin.
And she wailed before she died,
Before the hush of holy sacrifice.
And her sinful thighs
Created for the danse macabre
Withered into ashes.

PETER HARGITAI

"Witch's Island"


When have I last looked on
The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Lines Written in Dejection", The Wild Swans at Coole

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I practice mostly solitary witchcraft, which means it's very inward focused and about finding your own way and meeting up with others when you have a question or want to try something new. That's one of things about witchcraft, it's less formal communing, but in many respects it's closer.

HANNAH THOMAS

"Student practices witchcraft, found communities within Des Moines, Drake, internet", The Times-Delphic, March 22, 2017


A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

TERRY PRATCHETT

Wintersmith


People come into [witchcraft] because of ... dissatisfaction with the status quo of faith practice. They're seeking information that is not being fulfilled by traditional religions. People are tired of being sheep.

NICK KATSIKIS

"Contemporary witchcraft", The Temple News, October 27, 2015


Numerous studies done on schizophrenia, including at Mayo Clinic, in the United States, show that its symptoms begin to show in early 20s and late 20s for men and women, respectively. These studies showed that it's uncommon for children to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and it's very rare in adults aged over 45. So for some Ugandans, when a previously healthy family member suddenly begins to exhibit these symptoms ... it's not uncommon for some patients and their relatives to jump on the witchcraft blame-game, a common diversionary mechanism that hinders timely and appropriate psychiatric treatment because we are in state of denial.... One only wonders out of the 41 million Ugandans, how many of those who need psychiatric healthcare are suffering silently in the shadows!

VIVIAN ASEDRI

"Uganda: Witchcraft is a Vulnerable Person's Quickest Antidote!", The Monitor, January 14, 2016


Witches don't look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

FRANNY BILLINGSLEY

Chime


Being a modern witch not only adds a dash of magic to everything you do, but gives your life some serious hex appeal!

ELLEN RICKS

"Here's How Being A Modern Witch Is My Middle Finger To The Patriarchy", Vocally, April 6, 2018

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There are spiritual forces of witchcraft working to destroy our marriages, families, relationships, ministries, faith and churches.... Witchcraft is a real force and Jesus has given power to every believer to break free from its deceiving clutch.

JONAS CLARK

Exposing Spiritual Witchcraft

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To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Commentaries, 1765

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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Portable Nietzsche

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I believe witchcraft is one of the powers in the hierarchy of demons Paul listed in Ephesians 6:12. Just as the Holy Spirit is the power of God, witchcraft is a power of the enemy.

JENNIFER LECLAIRE

"3 More Sure Signs Witchcraft Is Attacking You", Charisma News, October 17, 2015


Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

CHARLES DE LINT

Into the Green

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For me "an act of Witchcraft" is one that brings me closer to the things I value in my spiritual life. In that sense gardening becomes an act of Witchcraft because it brings me closer to the Earth and the turn of the seasons. The simple act of putting a picture of my deceased grandparents up in my living room is an act of Witchcraft because it tells their spirits that they are welcome in my house and helps me to connect with them.

JASON MANKEY

"An Act of Witchcraft", Patheos, April 25, 2018


Witchcraft is the art of the Fallen Angels, the Watchers and the Children of Cain. It is the art of encircling the shadows of darkness and light to serve your will and create through your own being.

MICHAEL FORD

Luciferian Witchcraft: Book of the Serpent


One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter. But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may find good witches and bad witches.

L. FRANK BAUM

"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie", Baum's American Fairy Tales

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