K I was just wondering cuz I was reading the bible the other day and it said "suffer not the witch to live" and well being a "witch" would mean that you would believe that you should be killed?
Really, to me there is no harsh way to become a "True Witch", if you believe in the craft that you do and you love to do what you believe you do then you are by all means a true witch.
"K I was just wondering cuz I was reading the bible the other day and it said "suffer not the witch to live" and well being a "witch" would mean that you would believe that you should be killed? "
That would only hold true if Wiccans believed that what was written in the Bible applied to them. Since we do not, it is not important.
Actually the statement that one should not allow a "witch' to live is a mistranslation in the King James Bible. In the actual Hebrew the phrase means either "one who practices evil sorcery" or a "poisoner of wells". It is possible that the wording was changed in the KJV because King James had a pathological fear of Witches.
You know what I don't get? Why do people still think after centuries that witches are out to harm people? Are they just uneducated or have nothing better to do with their time then tell stories about how evil and horrible we are in The Christian Churches? Do they just not do any proper research? Or is it just the whole brainwashing aspect that churches tend to have on people? I don't mean to offend anyone with this post, I'm just curious.
The original Hebrew version had the word necromancer. The Hebrews believed in two types of magicians. Kabbalists and necromancers. Kabbalists were good and helped other throuh applying the magical properties of scripture. Necromancers were though of as people who raised dead souls to tell the future like the story of the witch of endor in the bible.
i find it an oxymoron personally, [look it up, it's not an insult] but after learning about it more, it sounds fine. a christian witch is someone who believes in Christianity, but practices magic, and a few i've talked to follow some wiccan teachings like karma and Samhain. the other point i'll point out is if you practice wicca, you are a wiccan, paganism you are a pagan, all others like elemental magic, you are a witch. that being said, i don't feel it's a mandatory category, my religious rooting is wicca, but i practice dragon magic, and each level you get a new name, but i call myself a witch because i study many paths, my main is Dragon/Wicca.
