What is a wiccan???and what exactly do they worship??are they good or evil or neutral??and does it even exist or is it a state of mind???
2006-09-26 16:06:50 · 9 answers · asked by flyinghigh006 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wicca is a new adaptation of ancient Pagan religions. (It was invented in the 1950s. Which is okay, because every religion had to start at some point.)
I'm going to speak very generally. Practitioners worship a God and a Goddess both. They believe in the power of magick (whether they do spells or not), revere nature, and believe that all their actions, magickal or not, will come back to them. The core belief is "Do what you will, but harm none."
I'm a Pagan who started off Wiccan.
The sites below will explain further.
2006-09-26 16:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wicca is a branch of the Neopagan religious movement that celebrates nature and reveres the cycles of the year. They worship a Goddess and a God of fertility and the harvest. You get good people and bad people in Wicca just like in every other religion.
You can read more in the link below.
2006-09-26 23:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by Abriel 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hey I am a pagan not a Wiccan. Wicca is a form of paganism
This link explains it better than me.
Peace
Edit: Good explanation Jayelle!
2006-09-26 23:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A wiccan is a groovy hippie trying to bring back the cooler and fuzzier aspects of the Druid religion.
They worship nature and the seasons and certain living things such as oak trees. they think they are good or neutral, but they leave out the really tuff, really valuable central elements of Druidic thought, and without that i winds up being pretty dark.
It doesn't exist, it's a state of mind, a special kind of sentimentality.
2006-09-26 23:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
What happened to all the Wiccans in YA? Have they all gone to sleep this early?
2006-09-26 23:08:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, a lot of it does seem tom be a state of mind. Wiccans like the idea that they are witches although they don't actually have magical powers.
In the 19th century a romaticizing of things Pagan began. Godfrey Leland forged a spurious book called Aradia:Gospel of the Witches that implied that witches were pagans who worshipped Diana (and Lucifer). He plagarized materials from two previous books he wrote (Etruscan Remains and Gypsy Sorcery). Although the word Wicca isn't mentioned, it was the great-great daddy of the whole thing.
Later on quack anthropolgist Margret Murray hatched her own theory about the witches of the European witch trials actually being survivors of a Pagan cult in her books. These inspired Gardner to create his own witch cult witch he called "wica" (at first spelled in lower case and with only one "c"). Gardner insisted Witch meant "Wise one" claiming the word derives from the Old English word "wicce". "Wicce" actually means "to bend", and this is where the word "wicker" comes from. The word "wicked" also comes from "wicce" (as in a wicked person being "bent").
The word "witch" has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth,including English, but for some reason Wiccans still insist on calling themselves "Witches" (with a capital "W") and their religion "Witchcraft". They feel that the reason people are afraid of them is centuries of "xtian propaganda" meant to defame them. But even if they went to Vietnam ( a predominantly Buddhist country) and said they were a Phuy Tay (Vietnamese for witch), people would still be afraid of them. Of course, a tiny few Wiccans have stopped calling themselves witches, but most probably enjoy the shock value wether they admit it or not.
There were examples of witches who did evil deeds in history (such as the Weirs and LaViosin) but Wiccans don't equate themselves with such people since they were Devil worshippers.
The people killed at Salem were Christians killed by other misguided Christians probably due to Ergotism (since they even hung a dog as a witch, I'm convinced they weren't in their right minds). And even though some Wiccans will admit the "witches" killed weren't Wiccans, they still treat them as Wiccan martyrs. There is a large Wiccan population in Salem, with Laurie Cabot as it's "official witch".
I love all you Wiccans, but I just have a different opinion than you do. If people only want to hear answers they agree with, they should only talk to themselves.
You might find this answer helpful too.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqLmYvMj0p9N3Nzq4jGWLJDsy6IX?qid=20060918191343AA1dAL3
2006-09-27 06:30:47 · answer #6 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
http://www.homepagez.com/skylarphonex/wicca.html
This is a decent site. There are many places on the net and many flavors of Wiccans.
They are not evil.
Blessings )O(
2006-09-26 23:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wiccans are essentially modern day witches. They worship mother earth and all components associated with it. They are neither good nor bad per say, but it definitely a religion and DEFINITELY one most Christians, including myself, deplore.
2006-09-26 23:16:07 · answer #8 · answered by uncletoon2005 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Wiccans are spiritists who worship mother earth. It is entry level witchcrafty. They have not yet discovered the bondages of Satanism. But if they stay in it long enough...they will learn, sadly, that they are worshiping the creation instead of the One who created it all.
2006-09-26 23:20:03 · answer #9 · answered by rejoiceinthelord 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋