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

That's all fair comment TWC.

I guess I reacted strongly because I was just surprised that some of the folks here didn't know about this stuff! You have hit the nail re: folks have to learn it on their own and not do things by wrote without understanding why (that doesn't mean that they all necessarily do though). This seems to be one constant in everyone's magical development in as much when they start they need formulas/rites with some history behind them, then as they progress they become more confident to wing it, having absorbed some basic principles through trial and error (it also tends be the case, as far as my observations are concerned, that one takes a much broader view of magic, allowing the incorporation of more "stuff"). I just wanted to make that distinction, but yeah, I can see that I was preaching to the choir.

53rdSpirit,

I agree that you can pick out some flaws in the "magical logic" of a lot of old folk magic...at least from our point of view, but remember that this stuff pre-dates Graves. I am just passing on my understanding of how people thought things worked then.