Fake Witches? Options

a blog that ive been reading said that those who claims to be a witch but just read witchcraft books are fake.. he said that real witches are witches who has spirit mentors etc. and people who just learn witchcraft through books etc are nothing but fake witches. what do you think of this accusation?

by the way, this is the blog

http://filipinosorcery.blogspot.com/

This post has been edited by Edunpanna: Jun 3 2007, 10:34 PM

Okay...the pee comment made me read the blog.

What he is talking about is another very common item that one will find mentioned again and again if one actually reads something pertaining to the historical practice of witchcraft!!

I apologise if my italicising seems over the top, but I can't believe you guys don't know about this! It was certainly widespread in the UK for hundreds of years, and particularly during the C17th when several writers on astrology published books in which it was recommended!

I should also point out that many of these accounts and documents that I refer to somewhat vaguely exist in the form of folklore studies, which should absolutely not be dismissed out of hand. Yes, some of it is just plain superstition, some of it was made up by "scholars" during the C19th, but some of it is exactly what it says, i.e. the "Lore" that was utilised by the common man. You didn't do it because you thought it was "magical" (you were probably a good Christian who would have no truck with such things), you did it because it works! Heck...Hoodoo is made up entirely of bits of folklore from different places all mashed together, and is still evolving as folklore today!

I am reminded of a story my friend often tells about when he was living in Norway and had a friend who was a fisherman. In Norway there is a sea spirit called The Droge, which is a kind of dead-fisherman-archetype-thingy and is responsible for seeing that doomed vessels become doomed. Now, this fisherman got a new boat one day, and my friend went down to the dock to find him branding a design into the keel. When he was asked what he was doing he replied along the lines of, "This symbol wards off The Droge and will protect the ship and it's crew." Now this guy was a modern man who believed in neither magic nor spirits, but he knew from history and from his own experience that if you were fishing those waters you needed to make sure you had the right "protection". He didn't think what he was doing was "magic"...it was just what you did if you had any common sense!

Heck...if you want a sense of historical continuity to your witchery then forget the gibberish that is peddled by a lot of neo-pagan writers. Get yerself some folklore books and mine them for information!

Edit: syntax.

This post has been edited by J*S: Jun 3 2007, 04:57 PM