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Or more accurately why you can?t transform into another creature.

We get asked this question a lot on this site. The spell books are full of spells to help you transform into a vampire, werewolf, mermaid, god, half god, demon, and all manner of fantasy creatures. This is not possible. Magic will not change your DNA. You are human and will remain so.

We repeat this message so much that it makes our brains numb. I sigh every time I see the question. I scream when people refuse to accept the answer. Perhaps the answer is too short, perhaps it doesn?t get into the fundamentals enough, perhaps it isn?t clear or perhaps some refuse to listen.

In an effort to educate people on this topic I decided to write this post. I suspect there are a couple dozen of this nature, but since there are thousands of posts and spells the other way, I don?t see one more of these as overkill.

You cannot be a vampire. The creature that is most commonly thought of as a vampire is an immortal, blood sucking creature with various other attributes. You can not be this as the human body is not meant to live for ever, it begins to die from the moment it is born. Why would you even want to be a blood sucking anything? I never have gotten that part. As for the other attributes of the vampire they are just as implausible as the first two. Vampires are a myth. They were created as a way to explain the changes made to a corpse by people who didn?t understand decomposition. The concept of the psy-vampire or energy vampire is legitimate, however it is not what this post is for.

You cannot be a were wolf. This creature is part man part wolf. Biology rules that out right off the bat. Then there is the concept of the shapeshifter, the man who can transform into an animal, like a wolf. This is also ruled out by biology. It cannot be done in the physical form. There is a whole concept of shape shifting on the astral plane and shape shifting as a mental process, these are not what we are discussing here.

All the other creatures listed and those eluded to will fall into the same category as the vampire or the werewolf, it is not biologically possible.

Now, once we have said all this, someone reading it will come back with either ?well you say witches are real and everyone knows they are a myth? or ?why are you here if you don?t believe?. I will tackle the witch one first. The mythological witch, a warted, green skinned hag, who flys on a broom and eats children does not exist. Neither does the popular culture witch who has great and fantastical powers and can throw fire balls, spew lightning from her fingers, reduce his enemies to toads, twitch their nose and make the whole house clean, stop time, teleport from place to place and the gods only know what else.

A witch is a person who uses magic. Magic is the use of energy, imprinted with intention, released into the universe to bring about a subtle change in the life of the user. Now, this action will not bring about an instant change, nor will it bring about a change if the witch proceeds to sit on his/her behind and not do anything else to make the goal come to fruition. Magic is a catalyst. It is not a completion. Many spells have to be cast over several days. Some spells are very simple, some are complex. Ritual, tools, and timing play a part in the work of some witches.

As for the second question, ?why are you here if you don?t believe?. The answer involves the paragraph above. We believe in magic. We do not believe in fantastical magic or that which movies, books, TV shows and mythology thrust upon us as the definition of magic. We have educated ourselves on what magic really is, how it works, what it can do and what it cannot do and we believe in the foundation of our education that we can be powerful and active participants in our life story and change it when we see fit. We believe in reality. We understand that magic has limitations and that we cannot overcome those limitations by belief alone. Yes, belief is important in magic, however if all you have is belief you won?t get anything accomplished. If your belief is routed in nonsense and fantasy, you are deluded and need some education.

So, when you read that what you want cannot be accomplished by magic, understand we are not trying to hurt your feelings, we are trying to educate you. Some of the people on this site have spent the better part of their life on this earth learning and practicing what magic is and when we say it cannot be done it is not because we haven?t tried it is because we know it cannot work.