What do Wiccans believe?

Question

Why do they beleive that? Is is witchcraft? I promise this is not a loaded question in anyway, I have just seen several Wiccan people on here, and frankly I have absolutly no clue about any aspect of it, so educate me!

Answer 1

We wiccans believe in many things, but all are pure and we always practice pure or white magick as most of you now it by. It is a very intensive study.. We believe that an ye harm none do as ye will. We do have a Wiccan reed that we live by...we have a 3 fold law that if you do something harmful to someone it will come back to you 3 times as bad, it may not be right away but it will come back to you, just as you do something nice for someone it will come back to you. We have a God and Goddess who we see in everything, They have female and male aspects. We believe they are one but separate if you can understand that. It is a way of life, that is all about being good to others yourself and your planet. We are often slammed b/c people think we sacrafice animals and drink blood and what have you not...that is not the case. Sure there is black magick or unpure magick but someone who has pure intenet wold never do something so unmoral and unethical. There is also gray magick which is somewhere in the middle. We beleiev everyone has guides wether it be a person or animal and even animals have guides...if your really intrested check out the idiots guide to wicca and witchcraft, it was the first book I started with and I loved it, it was simple basic and straight foward.

Answer 2

There are a wide variety of beliefs and practices in modern day Wicca. However, despite the pluralism and diversity, distinct principles derived from Gardnerian Wicca are common to most modern witches. Some of these beliefs are as follows:

Everyone has the divine (or goddess) within.
One should develop natural gifts for divination or occult magic (often spelled 'magick' by occultists.)
Divine forces or nature spirits are invoked in rituals.
The Goddess, as either a symbol or a real entity, is the focus of worship.
Nature and the earth are sacred manifestations of the Goddess.
Everyone has his or her own spiritual path to follow.
Rituals and celebrations are linked to the seasons and moon phases.
Meditation, visualization, invocation (calling on forces or gods/goddesses), chanting, burning candles and special rituals trigger a sense of the mystical, thus reinforcing the core belief system.

Answer 3

Wiccans are one of many pagan, earth-related religions that believe there is a Goddess who birthed all of the world. The Horned God is her consort, and he is in charge of the forests, the beasts and the hunt. One of the major precepts of Wicca is "Do as ye will yet harm none". Witchcraft for Wiccans is not like the Harry Potter-esque illusion, but is more a harnessing of the energies of the earth. We do not believe in the Devil, as Christians do, nor are we all out to convert everyone else to our way of thinking, like other religions. There are many websites you can go to for good information.

There is nothing "evil" about Wicca.

Answer 4

To answer your question would take a long time. But I'll give you a shortie and then you can do more research. Which is vital to our religion as the name even means "one who knows" in Gaelic.
We are the religion derived from Druidatic tradition. We do practice a from of "witchcraft". It's Nature and not dogma based. We are polytheologists. We have a srtong reverance for female and male energies. To us they are true equals, but we do respect our diffrences. We hold reverance for our ansestors . And the family is sacred as the source of civilization. The ideas of what are good and what is evil is diffrent. "Death and Life" and "Dark And Light" are diffrent aspects of being to us so niether is good or evil because they are intertwined. But we do follow "Do what you will so long as you do no harm". And we have a strong reliance on justice to guide us. We hold a reverance for science because it explains the mysteries of Life. History is important because with it we get the true story of our mythologies.
We do not worship Satan, we don't even have a word for him in either Gaelic or Erse. We do not pratice any form of animal or human sacrifice. That's not to say we never did, at one point in time all religions did. We don't practice promiscuose sex. It is one of the most potent powers of Nature and it must be respected and held for unions. Blood(Life) and Majic (Science) are the others. We don't belive we can fly or say some words and "poof" it happens. Spells are prayers just like the Chathoics use in their masses and potions are turning out to have medical uses if you can decieffer the codes used.
I hope this helps and I didn't bore you. We can be long winded.

Answer 5

Wicca is the biggest of the Neopagan religions. Wiccans have super reverence for the Earth and for his or her Goddess and her consort, the horned God. Their considerable rule of habit is the Wiccan Rede which forbids them from harming human beings, which contain themselves, different than sometimes of self-protection. Many, possibly maximum, are solitary practitioners. Others style small communities of believers, called covens, groves, etc. because of the fact of centuries of religious propaganda and incorrect information, many conservative Christians, and others, associate Wiccans with Satanists even even with the incontrovertible fact that the two theory structures are as diverse as Christianity and Atheism. Our essays on Wicca are very diverse from those on Christianity. Wicca is an exceedingly decentralized faith; many Wiccans improve their own ideals, rituals, and different practices. The latter are frequently no longer straightforward exterior the solitary practitioner or Wiccan coven. So we describe the ideals and practices that maximum Wiccans carry in simple. maximum of Christianity is extremely centralized interior of denominations whose ideals, rituals, and different practices are properly documented and available to us. So we describe the variety of Christian ideals in super element.

Answer 6

Wicca is a religion and it does incorporate witchcraft. We honor the old gods and goddesses and celebrate the changing seasons and hold rituals during those times. We believe in harm none and do as you will. We are not Satanists as satan is a creation of Christianity.

Answer 7

From what I understand Wicca is a polytheistic Neo-Pagan nature religion inspired by various pre-Christian western European beliefs, whose central deity is a mother goddess and which includes the use of herbal magic and benign witchcraft.

Answer 8

Some of the things that Neo-Wiccans believe:
http://www.witches-tutorial.com/paths/neowicca.html
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/wicca.html

Contrary to popular belief, Wicca is not Celtic:
http://wicca.timerift.net/not_celtic.shtml
http://www.clannada.org/wicca.php
http://davensjournal.com/index.htm?DaWaC.xhtml&2

Answer 9

Thank you for asking before judging.
Winna is a nature based religion. they vaslue peace and love and respect all forms of life. harm none love all. they do beleive in more than one god. the goddess. whitch craft is really nothing but a prayer set in rhyme.

Answer 10

Wickens are a variety of pagans. They practice superstition (the idea that a person can influence unseen forces through rituals and repeating sayings or "spells.") Interestingly, Catholics are also pagans for the same reasons, but most of them don't know it. Catholicism (as a religion) was created when Emperor Constantine of Rome made "Christianity" the new national religion. In order not to alienate the then-pagan society, he enveloped all pagan practices into the new religion. So, Catholics pray to saints, and Mary, and carry statues, and repeat hail Mary's and all of that because that's what pagans do. Pretty interesting stuff, huh? A Catholic is a pagan, but a pagan is not a Catholic!