2006-10-22 07:13:23 · 15 answers · asked by jessika_moraw 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Special Education
Wiccans consider themselves witches. This is a pagan religion which believes to teach both good and bad, both white and black magic.
2006-10-22 07:15:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends entirely on what your definition of "witch" is. I was looking up the origin of the word and there seems to be a great amount of controversy over where it started and how it evolved. In some versions, it came from wicca, meaning knowledge (pronounced witcha). In others it came from the term Widden, to predict. In still another version it is a combination of 2 germanic words, meaning holy victim (from the persecutions).
In more modern day thinking, many pagans (which, by the by, comes from the greek word pagani, meaning of the ice, which is why the northern european people were considered pagan way back when) consider themselves witches. it's more by tradition than any real meaning. If you look at "witch" as being one of knowledge, any number of people could be witches. Doctors, scholars, scientists... But to follow tradition, anyone that follows a pagan religion (one not believing in a single "God") is a "witch."
Your questions brings about more questions than answers, I suppose. :)
2006-10-22 07:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they do.
but the witches that got burned on the stake back in puritan times
well they werent witches at all....
they were just women who tried to think outside of the box.
yea....crappy society back then.
2006-10-22 07:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by rustik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't exist anymore we fixed that problem with the witch trials. Unless you're a witch? Burn her!!!
2006-10-22 07:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by Joan McBitch 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not the green, warty, long-nosed witches that are portrayed at Halloween time, but there is a practice similar to witchcraft that is often confused with evildoers, Wiccans.
2006-10-22 07:16:20 · answer #5 · answered by slacdc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if they exist, per se... but I say if you believe in a higher power, then I don't see any nonsense in putting a small amount of belief in the supernatural.
I think wiccas existed(or people who thought they could heal that way).
2006-10-22 12:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by 2s2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure they do, I'm a witch. Just ask my hubby he will tell you so.
Oh wait, never mind, I heard him wrong it started with a B not a W. LOL
2006-10-22 07:42:49 · answer #7 · answered by sesamenc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i am a witch
2006-10-22 07:21:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
REAL WITCHES NO.
NUTTY PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE YES.
2006-10-22 07:14:58 · answer #9 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they dont wear underwear so they can get a better grip on the broom when they fly
2006-10-22 10:39:40 · answer #10 · answered by hell oh 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋