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

1) "...if you suspect you are being bewitched..."---then proceeds to tell you to do a spell. In my opinion, if you suspect you are being bewitched, you should perform some type of divination to determine what is going on. People should not just "guess" they are being worked, and just "guess" who is doing it. Spellwork can be harmful, debilitating and/or deadly and not something to just go zapping here and there and everywhere--that's so, well, kindergarten.

2) "...gather your own urine...rusty nails...boil...etc.,"--blogger does not mention anything about visualization, chants, directing energy, naming the person the spell is directed towards/returned to, or anything. Just boiling urine soup does nothing by itself.

3) "...caster will definitely take off the curse he placed upon you."--oh poppycock! An experienced witch/sorcerer, etc., would have taken care of that when they cast the original spell--made sure that the spell could not be reversed or any curse returned. The blogger will find out that the boiling urine soup curse/hex will just bounce right back to him/her and not reach the protected curse-originator at all.

Gah! Have you not read anything I have posted?

I see two possibilities in terms of responding to these points. The first is suggest that you refer to my prior post on why rustic C17th peasants thought this was a suitable way of dealing with a possible magical attack, and then apply some critical thinking (note the italicisation, it is important).

The second is to suggest that you refer to my prior comment that this stuff pre-dates Graves...that of course implies that it also pre-dates Blavatsky, Fortune, Gardner, "Results Magic" and the New Age movement. Having done so you should then apply some critical thinking.

Acid09,

See my previous comments to ascertain where he got the spell from.

I think that all is trying to do is present some ideas for workings derived from the primary sources that were extant at a time when belief in witchcraft was widespread. I admit that he would do well to cite his sources and make it clear that this is what is doing, and that such things are the foundation of the ideas he is posting on his blog. I suspect that to do so would probably help to allay a lot of the criticisms you guys are directing at him and I do not think there is any kind of questionable motivation involved. If anything, he is simply putting this material up as presumably he has noticed that there is a severe disinclination amongst those who would call themselves witches to actually get off their butts, do some research, and find these things out for themselves. After all, sounds a bit too much like hard work doesn't it?

Gah! Have you not read anything I have posted?

I see two possibilities in terms of responding to these points. The first is suggest that you refer to my prior post on why rustic C17th peasants thought this was a suitable way of dealing with a possible magical attack, and then apply some critical thinking (note the italicisation, it is important).

The second is to suggest that you refer to my prior comment that this stuff pre-dates Graves...that of course implies that it also pre-dates Blavatsky, Fortune, Gardner, "Results Magic" and the New Age movement. Having done so you should then apply some critical thinking."

J*S.

Not to quibble, but the blogger referred to in this thread is providing the inexperienced with antiquated magical practices to be used today, which although quaint and very interesting, are in my opinion pretty much impotent on their own (note the italicizations, they are important). I have researched and possess many old tomes of literature in my occult library on "rustic" 17th century witchcraft as well as the primitive occult practices of other cultures. I have a keen interest in this historical aspect of folk magic/witchcraft and incorporate some elements in my own spellwork whenever possible because I understand the reasoning behind ancient occult practices.

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