Answer correctly please.
2006-06-25 18:50:45 · 14 answers · asked by MAN 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes. But not in the form that most people think. Not like them movies that you watch. Also, they are not harmful. It's all nature based.
I probably could have given you a more thourough answer, but It's always the same questions over and over. Sick of explaining, because there is too much stereotyping on witchcraft/wicca.
2006-06-25 18:54:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes witches do exist. Some of them are called Wiccans. They are not evil, and they do not worship the devil. They are "good witches" and they believe that it is wrong to harm anyone or anything. They have been here since before Christianity and they will be here for a long time to come. In fact, being Wiccan does not necessarily interfere with them being good Christians. But they aren't going away.
2006-06-26 01:57:16 · answer #2 · answered by Oblivia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not sure whether they'd call themselves witches if they existed. Sure enough, I'm a dabbler (Wiccan wannabe), and I call myself a witch. Most Wiccans are dabblers who have read a lot about witchcraft.
But you'll never find a serious "witch" who is willing to turn someone into a frog to show you witchcraft is real. Because they're not real witches.
That's because "witch" was the name given to nonbelievers by the church. You see, when a new religion came in a community and it wanted to replace the old one (Christianism replacing Druidism in Ireland, for instance), it gave new names to the old deities, etc. so that they became repulsive to believers, who would then turn to the new religion.
The church made "the devil" out of a druidic deity that happened to have horns. But that's not what druids called it. And it wasn't the center of their religion.
And druids were called witches. So they were real, and they did meet in secret since they started to be persecuted, but they didn't call themselves witches and they certainly didn't "kiss the devil's bottom" or threw weird things into a boiling cauldron.
Self-appointed witches come from people being born in Christianity and being tired of it and choosing to do what it prohibits most and marks as its nemesis. But witchcraft has its roots on a tale and not reality.
In order for someone to be a witch, he or she would have to act according to an unreal set of believes. And in order for someone to adopt the religion of them real people who were accused to be witches, they would be a religion that is far from witchcraft as red is far from green.
Witchcraft is the new religion's distorted view of the old religion. It's not exclusive to Europe, it has happened in Africa, India, China, everywhere around the freakin globe! It kind of refers to real people, but it can't really be called real itself.
In a nutshell: Witchdraft was made up, per se, so technically witches are made up too.
But I do believe a deity who doesn't mind to be called a different name from its real one will eventually heed Wiccans and neo-pagans calls in their clamorous mumbling of non-sense. And It won't mind the fact that everything about the religion is made up; the fact that it has not been brought to them by a messager from the deity being adored (like messagers from God came to the Earth to teach The Teachings!! (Ohhh!!)). And then self-appointed witches WILL have some sort of power, and they'll finally gather the guts stop saying "witchcraft is like a prayer and it doesn't work directly and so you can't do cool things like turning humans into frogs" because it's so annoying even deities want it to stop.
Or maybe this has already happened. But I haven't seen it. And current Wiccan covens have no supernatural power at all, that's for sure.
2006-06-30 14:41:36 · answer #3 · answered by its just me!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who call themselves witches exist. People who perform supposed magic rituals exist. But that doesn't mean these people are able to actually cast spells, nor that they have any real powers.
Will they exist tomorrow? Most likely. The days of true witch hunts seem to be thankfully over, though we've invented all kinds of other metaphoric witch hunts to occupy our time these days.
2006-06-26 01:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by JStrat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wicka is one of the oldest religions in existence. Christianity drove them underground, but did not erradicate them. Yes they exist today and if you took a poll, you would probably find some members. One Love People.
2006-06-26 02:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by zenhoss 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
witches do exist but are not as powerful as people are lead to believe, they have no more power than any other human, the tales and history has made people fear them.
2006-06-26 01:55:22 · answer #6 · answered by Yaago 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they will always exist.
2006-06-26 01:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
drop the wiccan questions, you won't resolve them......
do a search on it. It might give you some insight.
2006-06-26 02:05:06 · answer #8 · answered by Skycam24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we have always been here and we will always be here! from the begining to the end and beyond! we exist just as you always have!
2006-06-26 01:58:29 · answer #9 · answered by SHE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most defiantly, I know for sure they do. I was married to one of them.
2006-06-26 01:54:56 · answer #10 · answered by gi joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋