Who knows witchcraft stories?

Question

Witchcraft started ages ago. The belief in witchcraft peaked around the 1700s people in England didnt have explanations for diseases and events. Witchcraft has still survived to today in some places but in others its meerely said to frighten children. If you have any witchcraft stories share them with me.

Answer 1

My nan used to tell me stories about witches all the time, she still leaves them on the answerphone for my uncle. They are about good witches though - I'll have a go at reciting one but beware, I don't have my nans touch!
"There was once a little old lady who lived in a perfectly ordinary house at the end of her ordinary road with her perfectly ordinary little black cat, because as everyone knows, you can't have a witch without her black cat. Now one day as this little old lady was going out shopping to get her bread and some fish for her cat, she came across a little boy she knew from down the road named Timmy. "Hello there Timmy my dear, why are you crying?" she said with her kind face and her soothing voice, "Oh... oh" the little boy sobbed " It's my bicycle, I left it right here while I went to get my sweeties and now it's gone! I know it was here! My mummy will be so cross!" and little Timmy started crying harder. The little old lady hated to see anyone sad, so she gave him a hanky and sat down on the kerb beside him - but mind, she was getting old so she did creak and crunch as she sat. "It's alright Timmy, now what colour was this bicycle? And how long were you gone for?" so Timmy replied, "It's a red one, big and shiny with a new bell that is ever so loud, and it can go so so fast and anywhere you want... I only left it for a minute!" The little old lady looked down at the little boy and thought hard, "It's alright Timmy, I'll keep a look out for you, it'll be back in no time. Now off you go home." So the little boy wiped his tears and blew his nose and set off for home, looking terribly sad at the thought of trying to explain to his mother what had happened.
The little old lady got up, turned around and went straight back home, forgetting everything she had come shopping for. Then she got home and she went around the house locking all the doors and closing all the curtains, the little black cat knew what was happening and meowed loudly so said to him, "I'm sorry pus, but this is an emergancy!" and she put on her apron that sits behind the door, and her witches hat that is in the broom closet (next to her broomstick of course) and she went into the spare room and shut the door, then she opened the cupboard and went to the top most shelf and there was a jar of purple shining powder, it looked as though there were real stars gleaming and glinting inside, she opened the jar and sprinkled it on a little bit of newspaper, just a little bit - you must remember this stuff is hard to get hold of - then she replaced it on the top shelf and rummaged around to find the red jar of feathers, so she found the red jar and took out two feathers, then closed the jar and ut it back. Then the little old lady thought hard, ah yes, it needs something shiny. So she looked around the room and found some shiny silver foild, and put that on the newspaper too with the purple star sparkles and the red feathers. Then she pulled her wand from her pocket and said a secret spell - now I wish I could tell you what this spell was but I don't know, nobody knows but her and the little black cat. And then boom! There was a shiny red bicycle, with a beautiful bell that tinkers so loudly and wheels that could do anything. The little old lady smiled at herself. Then she hid the red bicycle under a black sheet and she unlocked the doors and opened the curtains again to wait until the nightfall.
That night, the little old lady put on her witches hat and got out her broomstick, and she opened the spare room window as wide as it goes, and she checked that the coast was clear, and she picked up the little black cat and sat him on the back and said "Good pus, you sit still!" and then she picked up the big red shiny bicycle with a blue ribbon wrapped around it and put it in front of her, and then she flew out and away from the spare room window! My goodness me, the little old lady loves to fly, she floats here and whooshes there and she goes upside down and all around and of course, her and the little black cat and the shiny bicycle never fall off, because this is magic! But the little black cat does moan sitting there on the back! Eventually she came to little Timmys house - it isn't far away but the little old lady has so much fun on the broomstick that it often takes quite a while to get there! And she got off her broomstick - checking the coast was clear of course, and she tip toed to the back of the house and she opened the back gate and then left the new bicycle there on the back step for when Timmy wakes up in the morning. Then she gave a chuckle, not like a witches chuckle but a lovely little old lady chuckle, and she got back on the broomstick and flew away home.
The next day the little old lady went into the village again - because yesterday she didn't get tuna for the cat or any bread or milk - and she saw Timmy again, riding around on his lovely bicycle! She waved and said "Timmy, you found it!" and he says "Oh it's the strangest thing! I thought it was gone forever but this morning I woke up and it was there on the back step! But this bicycle, its faster than mine, and the bell is louder and the wheels and bigger and it's just so wonderful! I am so happy!" And the little old lady smiled with glee and went on with her shopping."
I'm not as great at telling stories as my nan, she has the perfect voice for it and does all the actions of opening the cupboard door and all that. But I used to love those stories - sorry about the length!

Answer 2

Witchcraft goes back to centuries before Jesus was born, it was simply not known as witchcraft. It is alive and well today. There are many practitioners of Wicca and also witches who are not Wiccan, since Wicca is a relatively new religion. I am a solitary witch, I practice the old religion. It is not evil. I am sure there are evil witches just as there are evil Christians, Muslims, etc. But not many. It is very much against our beliefs to harm anyone or anything. I hate the thought that it may be used to frighten small children. As for stories, no, I do not know any. Only my own life experience, which is not very exciting or entertaining.
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Answer 3

The word "Witch" is a Christian product of fear. They used the label to murder people of the crafts. The murdered Herbalists, Bone setters, Animal callers, Dowsers, midwives, healers, potion makers, etc., and called them Witches because of a rotten translation of the old testament where Witch was placed in translation of a Hebrew word that translated correctly as sorceress, If you dig back for enough into the origin of the Hebrew word it truly means healer and oracle...

That those of the many crafts choose to wear the label Witch in these days, has turned it from Christian hate to Pagan love.

Answer 4

The neo-pagan, wiccan and witchcraft 'religions' still thrive. I am unsure as to what you mean by 'stories'?
Are you asking if they still exist? or do you want actual accounts of spells, curses etc? if it's the later it is unlikely that you would be privellage to that sort of info.
No offence, but I would be uncomfortable sharing such personal info. with a 'virtual person'.
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Answer 5

Uhm, first off, I don't think there are any true kulam stories or experiences. Because withcraft (kulam) isn't true. Most of the things I know about kulam came from movies, books, etc. And they're very similar, now that I think about it, to spells in the Harry Potter stories. There are curses that can make you spit out slugs, bugs come out of your ears and your nose, you vomit, and then there are spells that make you fall in love, hallucinate, etc.

Answer 6

No witches were ever burned in Salem - they were all hanged or drowned. Witchcraft survives today as it is meant to be...recognizing the goddess as the highest diety (she gave birth to the earth), and her consort the god of light.

Answer 7

Here's the true story of the Origin of Wicca

In 1897 Godfrey Leland wrote "Aradia Gospel of The Witches". The book was plagiarized from two of his other books, Etruscan Remains and Gypsie Sorcery. Leland claimed he was given an ancient manuscript, which is the same story he used about one of his other books. This is the same era when Joseph Smith Jr., was finding “gold plates”, so maybe it sounded possible. The manuscript was never produced for examination, like Smith’s plates. Even though the book doesn't mention "wicca", it was the inspiration of what was to come. "Aradia" deals with Diana and her brother Lucifer, a being "banished from paradise for his pride" and was obviously the Christian devil. Diana and Lucifer have a daughter named Aradia, who was supposedly a witch avatar who lived in Sicily in the 14th century. No witch cult like Leland's was ever found, and the document is obviously fake.

Next came Margaret Murray. A quack anthropologist, Murray hatched her own witch theory inspired by Leland's hoax. Murray invented the idea that witches of medieval witch-hunts were actual part of a Pagan cult that survived into 1600's or so. Murray wasn't above lying as her writings about Joan of Arc bear out. If she had actually read the trial transcripts from St. Joan's trial as she claimed, there are no way she could have drawn the conclusions she did about the devout Catholic Joan being a witch. Murray tests the limits of the reader's patience with ideas like an poor accused witch being tortured crying "Queen of Heaven help me!" as an incantation to a Pagan goddess, rather than the obvious St. Mary. But Murray's books inspired (and continues to inspire) others.

Wicca was started by Gerald Gardner in New Forrest England circa 1939-1950. He was a nudist & masochist and basically created Wicca as a sex cult. Followers nowadays like to forget that part, and instead fantasize they have magical powers. Many American Wiccans deny Gardner's sexual fetishes, but they're commonly accepted as fact in the U.K. Gardner was a member of Crowley’s O.T.O. and plagiarized his writings for his Book of Shadows.

Adian Kelly wrote a book on the history of Wicca called "Crafting The Art of Magic" in the 1980's. Wiccans had a fit when it was published, and pressured Llewellyn to take it out of print. It was supposed to be the first in a series of books. I think Adian Kelly probably summed it up best when he said this about the Gardnerian "Book of Shadows", the closest thing Wicca has to a sacred book:

" [M]any of the Book of Shadows rituals did not exist in 1954 (when Witchcraft Today was published) but instead were still being written. [T]he major sources from which the rituals had been constructed included: (a) Mather's edition of the Greater Key of Solomon; (b) Aleister Crowley's Magic in Theory and Practice; (c) Leland's Aradia (d) some Masonic rituals akin to those described by Duncan and those of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (aside from those transmitted by Crowley; and (e) Margaret Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe. There were also bits and pieces from other works by Leland, Jane E. Harrison, Gilbert Murray, James Frazier, and other great classicists from the 19th century. That accounted for EVERYTHING in the rituals! There was nothing left that differed in any important way from what you can find in those sources- - but that is NOT at all what Gardner had claimed!"

Wicca a religion where anything can be added in, where the followers mistakenly think they have magic powers, and it's not older than rock and roll, even though it's called the "Old Religion". Authors like Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Silver Raven Wolf, Raymond Buckland, Scott Cunningham crank out books about how to get love, money, and above all else "protection". The Frost's Magic Power of White Witchcraft says "Witchcraft Can Make You Rich in a Ghetto" according to the title of chapter 11. However, the Frosts themselves aren't rich. Coincidentally, they claim to have taken a "vow of poverty" according to one of their webpages, to explain why they apparently can't make their spells work either.

Eventually Ronald Hutton wrote his own history of Wicca, called "Triumph of the Moon". Hutton is a history professor at Oxford, so he is not easliy dismissed. Even though some Wiccans have realized their history is a sham, they still want to cling to the "witch" fantasy (like Kelly for one, he calls himself a "Christian Pagan") by calling it a "reconstructionist movement". But you can't reconstruct something which never existed in the first place. Even so, these types still seem to allude to their religion being thousands of years old.

Answer 8

I know two people who also know each other. One is the great^X grandchild of a person burned at the stake in Salem. The other is the great^X grandchild of the judge who sentenced that person. Wacky world.

Answer 9

I know a lot of witches died in salem. Strike that! Assumed witches.

Answer 10

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