Witchcraft

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also used books that are mainly about the general structure of the Craft and its religion "Wicca". I have also had an interview with one of the Witch, Robb Boyle, on the 14th of November 1998. I asked him general ideas and some specific details about the Craft and the religion.
3.1 Brief historical background of the in the world.
Scholars like anthropologists, archaeologists and historians believe that the practice of "" has been existed for the around 20,000 to 40,000 years (Johnson). In every society, practitioners' vocations vary, like midwives or herbalists (DiLorenzo). However, fine distinctions of "Witches" were not made. People who believe in nature deities, and possessed fortune-telling or supernatural powers have all been considered as "Witches". can be found in different kind of culture all over the world, like the Celtic, Greek, African, Egyptian and Asian (Moorey 18-20). The most well known one is the Celtic tradition of the craft. It is because during the classical ...

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were burned to death in 1586. Witches were the most convenient scapegoats for every aspect of life. Besides religious reasons, Witches studied a lot and had a broad knowledge of botany, meteorology, anatomy, veterinary science, psychology, astronomy, and primitive physics. What we called "science" now was considered as "magic" in the superstitious population of that time (DiLorenzo). Thus, many Witches were persecuted throughout history. Lists of " craze" happenings in England, Scotland, and France in the medieval time are attached with the paper (see appendix 1). In the late 19th century, as the society was getting more open to ideas, Witches had started to come forward to speak of ...

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