The Witchcraft
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The term’witchcraft’ has different meanings for different people and different cultures. There isn’t any way to’nail down’ a particular definition for the term’witchcraft’ apart from to assert is it a craft practiced by witches.
You can’t call’witchcraft’ a specific religion. Witchcraft has been found in several different cultures and on all continents in some form, both currently and historically. There are common threads that run through all of the several ways in which sorcery is practiced. For instance :
There are spiritual elements that include spirits and/or deities.
* There are connotations that deal with the afterlife.
* sorcery is a part of all of the many forms of sorcery.
The term’witchcraft’ has been used to define any practice that involves sorcery, and the term’witchcraft’ appears to be outlined by the culture and values counseled by each community. Magic is viewed by different groups with varying degrees of respect, suspicion, or indifference. But most cultures outline their own version of sorcery as either’good’ or’evil,’ and there’s no middle ground.
Many see sorcery in any form in a similar way that they view hellish ritual abuse ( SRA ). SRA is seen as physical and sexual abuse related to devilish rituals or the occult. To these people it means that anything even remotely associated with witchcraft is malevolent.
The label’witchcraft’ has been applied by most to any practice that is used to influence or control another person’s mind or body against his or her will and for evil purposes that will undermine the accepted social or religious order.
It is frequently hard to distinguish bad wizardry or’black magic’ from good magic or’white magic.’ White wizardry is
meant to protect humans from black wizardry spells but white sorcery also uses’spells’ and’connotations.’
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