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Originally Posted by Leo Keichi
For me, witchcraft means using some material means in order to connect with the spiritual realm. So, by this definition, a Christian can be a witch as well, when they put an oil on their heads, or take the supper, for example.
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The thing is even going by that definition, re-enactment isn't necessarily evoking. We enact the Last Supper as to not forget as is the words that accompany it
'take this and do this in memory of me'
- The closest thing to evoking if we had to would be through prayer, to meditate with, to spiritually strengthen ourselves with the Holy Spirit, otherwise as much as I can tell, unlike evoking the elements in Wicca practice, there is no summoning per se
- But it's definitely an interesting definition, haven't thought it that way before ^^
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Originally Posted by cheyannew
Ahhh, yes, the "witch" fad...
I HATED movies like "The Craft" (I used to call it "The Crap) when I was in school; it made life miserable for those of us actually practicing Wicca. I ran a small coven in high school, and it was right as the goth culture/wannabes were coming into play. Needless to say, we got a lot of them bothering us, wanting to "cast spells" with us and other such nonsense.
Stuff like that, and the plethora of "Wiccans" who honestly never did a lick of actual research other than picking up Buckland or Cabot's trash, are one of the reasons I stopped practicing Wicca to begin with. I'm sure Satanism will be the next fad to shock people, but that's fine. So long as they're not a total prat saying they're with the CoS I don't care what they do. No red card? Not worth my concern.
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Not yet jaded by Hollywood, I actually
loved that movie, given my interest in all things Wicca at the time. xD
I probably would have bothered practitioners, merely outta curiosity and to observe how its actually performed irl and ask tons of questions, rather than trying to get a spell outta ya.
As annoying as it may have been, regardless of materialistic and meaning reasons for others, if it suited you and you were serious about it, I personally don't see why you should have stopped to be honest.
It wasn't like the essence of Wicca itself was the one that was annoying you (just other human beings)