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I am a witch. I was trained by a witch. So, what is a witch? Originally we were simply called "wise ones". At the time when the modern medical profession did't exist, the wise ones were the healers. They knew the herbal remedies for many ailments. They could not cure cancer, of course, but they could ease the pain. The wise ones also studied the influences of the sun, and the moon, and the planets.A witch really does know healing. However, modern medicine is now so powerful that I have changed over the years. So now my healing is more "emotional" than physical. Easing the pain of the Mind, giving good counsel. I still make up herbal remedies if asked; but the same remedies can now be had from lots of Herbal stores, already made up, and with full instructions of how to use them. Witchcraft is not the answer to every ailment; but it can help a person accept the inevitable. Hospices do it every day for the terminally ill. They don't call it magic, of course, but it is the same magic I have practised all my life. Magic is not waving a wand about and changing somebody into a frog! My witch teacher never had a wand or a staff in the whole 91 years of her life. Magic is "knowledge", how to use what is there, how to focus energy; how to meditate; how to visualise your spell. That is all the magic. But be careful with spells. Maybe the threefold payback may not be exactly correct, But there is always a payback, "What you sow, so shall you reap". Can't be said any better than that!