What is a
Wiccan?
Wicca is a term
for modern pagan witchcraft, also known as The Old
Religion and Craft of the Wise.
Wiccan
practitioners believe in working with the harmonies of
nature and celebrating the seasons.
Wicca is a
spiritual path, and its follows believe that they must
accept responsibility for their own actions and not hold
someone else to blame for their
mistakes.
Follows of
witchcraft work with the moon phases and cycle of the
year, celebrating the seasons and understanding and
respecting the forces of nature.
Witches are often
healers, using a variety of methods to assist them. These
may be in the form of crystals,
herbs, tarot cards and incenses.
Practitioners of
the Craft are protectors, respecting the balance in all
things, a teacher and a seeker.
It has been proven
from paintings in caves that people had a need to honour
a Hunter God figure and likewise a Fertility
Goddess.
The term Wicca is
often adopted in preference to Witchcraft by its follows
because of the mistaken evil portrayal given to the word Witch. The Witchcraft
superstitions of medieval times are unfortunately still
with us today.
What Wicca is
not!
Witchcraft (Wicca)
is not a cult. Its followers do not worship or even
accept Satan (A Christian concept). Wiccans do not
consort with devils or demons. Wiccans do not sacrifice
animals or humans as all life is honoured and respected.
To take life or even hurt or seek to control another
would be against the Wiccans Rede ‘To Harm
None’.
Witches have a
very strong belief in that whatever you send out to the
ether will be returned threefold. Wiccans do use spells
and potions
but with a few exceptions they are used for
good.
Wiccans do not
seek to hex or cast spells to hurt or
harm.
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