Dark history of Witchcraft

After a long time I am back with a post on witch craft, today the image of a witch or a wizard or the whole of the witchcraft is highly distorted.
Lets see what happened to once popular and highly respected covens….

Witches and wizards are as old as civilization itself… no this is no exaggeration, they were there but their names have been different.
There were the witch doctors of the African countries and the druids of England and Ireland and Ancient Gauls.

The main purpose of these sorcerers were to create harmony between nature and human and give a blissful life to the humans. They all worked for this particular cause.

With the advent of Christianity,
witchcraft was doomed. After 300 AD Christianity started to flourish and by 1000 AD it was the dominant religion in the west. Christianity highly condemned worshipping of nature power like sun, moon, the elementals and other forces and witchcraft is based on the powers of the nature. So anyone who was found worshipping these gods were accused of blasphemy and devil worship and many of the symbols of the witches and pagans were devilized. So this the reason why pentacle once a sacred symbol(still is for many pagans around the world) was portrayed as symbol of the devil.

Many books have been written to how to identify witches and what things they do. Some stories were pure imagination of the author, one such concept which was later universally accepted was that the Satan tortures people and forces them to sign an agreement, according to which the person signing the agreement gets immense magical power which they can use to torture public in turn the Satan will help the person mostly in material aspect. And 1000 yrs back people of the west strongly believed in satans and his powers so they strongly condemned the witches as well not knowing the reality of their craft.

Clearly fraudulent and aberrant, the witch trials were sanctioned during a period of about three centuries. Witch burning occurred sporadically since 1450's. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued an edict, Summis desiderantes affectibus, where he alleged that many men and women were in collusion with the Devil. All Christians were to extend their help to two Dominican monks the Pope placed in charge of fighting people who, in association with Satan, caused diseases, pestilence, harmed harvest and cattle, and perpetrated other heinous crimes. The names of these monks were Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, also known as Institoris. Sprenger and Kramer wrote Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1486, which codified the charges, interrogation procedures and the means of judicial resolutions for the witchcraft trials. After, in 1517, Luther posted his theses, launching the Protestant-Catholic controversy, the frequency of the trials increased.



The most infamous of the trials was that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Between February 1692 and May 1693, over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally pursued by the authorities. The two courts convicted 29 people of the capital felony of witchcraft, 19 of whom (fourteen women, five men) were hanged. One other man, having refused to enter a plea, died under judicial torture to extract one from him, and at least five more of the accused died in prison.


The incident started in Salem Village in 1692, Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughter and niece (respectively) of Reverend Samuel Parris, began to have fits described as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect," by John Hale, minister in nearby Beverly. The girls screamed, threw things about the room, uttered strange sounds, crawled under furniture, and contorted themselves into peculiar positions, according to the eyewitness accounts. The girls complained of being pinched and pricked with pins. A doctor, could find no physical evidence of any ailment. Other young women in the village began to exhibit similar behaviors.

The first three people accused and arrested for allegedly afflicting Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, 12-year-old Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba. Tituba, as a slave of a different ethnicity than the Puritans, was an obvious target for accusations. Sarah Good was poor and known to beg for food or shelter from neighbours. Sarah Osburne had married her indentured servant and rarely attended church meetings. All of these women fit the description of the "usual suspects" for witchcraft accusations, and no one stood up for them. These women were brought before the local magistrates on the complaint of witchcraft and interrogated for several days, starting on March 1, 1692, then sent to jail.
Other accusations followed in March: Martha Corey, Dorothy Good (mistakenly called Dorcas Good in her arrest warrant) and Rebecca Nurse in Salem Village, and Rachel Clinton in nearby Ipswich. Martha Corey had voiced scepticism about the credibility of the girls' accusations, drawing attention to herself. The charges against her and Rebecca Nurse greatly concerned the community because Martha Corey was a full covenanted member of the Church in Salem Village, as was Rebecca Nurse in the Church in Salem Town. If such upstanding people could be witches, then anybody could be a witch, and church membership was no protection from accusation. Dorothy Good, the daughter of Sarah Good, was only 4 years old, and when questioned by the magistrates her answers were construed as a confession, implicating her mother.

This led to further accusations and trials and thus the most infamous salem witch trials started. However it is now universally accepted that the girls were not possessed and it has no connection to witchcraft. Then comes the alternate theories, some say that the rev.Paris was not accepted in his community, so he sought the help of his daughter and niece get his position strengthened in the community. Some also say that the girls did this to gain attention. Some medical theories do exist like these girls’ food could have been infected by the fungus “Claviceps purpurea” this fungus couldbe easily found in the bread of those days. This fungus causes the plant disease “Ergot of Rye” and contains precursor used to synthesize the powerful psychedelic drug LSD. However none of them could be proved.
Witch burning stopped around the time of the American (1776) and the French Revolution (1789).

Since now the people of Salem has understood the mistake, they have transformed their city as the witch’s paradise… yes it has the “Salem witch museum”, coffee shops named witches’ Brew, streets names dedicated to witches and their craft. You will also find witch tours and witch landmarks.

If you plan to visit Salem, Massachusetts you can plan your trip 2 day before Halloween and you will find lots of people visiting the city to see the witches’ paradise, you can also watch the theatrical play recreating the Salem trial.

i know that my posts are really long, but that is the scope of the subject.. ill try to reduce the size of the posts..

Blessed be…..

Dedication to Wicca

Hello ppl..
Im back, well was kinda busy these days…
As I have already mentioned in the previous posts this post is about dedication to wicca..
Before get dedicated, u should understand certain things and be aware of what you going to do….

It is always better to get into the theory, before you jump into practice, this is no game you should be truthful to the “The Goddess and The God”.
Generally, you can easily find wiccans around you, through sites like www.witchvox.com.get you can them and learn their way of life. One year of serious research and complete dedication is enough to get into the religion, don’t ever forget the SABBATS, they give you the energy, the purpose and lot more.

To get into wicca officially, you should have some spiritual link with nature,
If you have ever felt an unexplained happiness when you go to places which are close to nature, if you have strong bonds with animals, if you have high intuition, if you can feel the spirits then you are perfectly fit to be a wiccan.

So if you satisfy the above conditions, get into contemplation, a month before you actually get dedicated. Contemplation is to learn everything that could be an aid to your path in the craft.like you can learn reiki, pranic healing, runes, feather magick, candle magick, the list goes on…
The dedication should be done on the New Moon, preferably in the night.
You should take a bath before you get the dedication,CLEANLINESS IS GODLINESS.you should be ready with some new clothes and knife and other things used on the altar.So this bath is not so normal, you have to take a litte salt and some pure oil, and some frankincense, myrhh etc, and take bath leisurely, during this bath, the salt washes away the negative energy from you and the oils make you receptive to positive energy. When you are over with the bath, come out skyclad and burn your old dress and wear a new dress, if necessary. You should have thought of your wiccan name. then you can cast a circle and then invoke elementals( AIR, WATER, EARTH, FIRE) and as soon as you invoke the elementals, you should visualise them around you and then you should visualize a white light formed of the elementals surrounding you and protecting you, after this you will feel a difference in your atmosphere, then call upon your guardian angel and invoke the goddess and the god and ask them to accept you into the path, as a priest or priestess with your wiccan name. Then you can meditate on the elementals and the goddess and the god.
Finally toast the Gods and Guardians saying:Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again.

Here you had to use some chantings while getting dedicated, you can prepare your own chants, so that they are meaningful to you, and it should praise the GODDESS, GOD, THE ELEMENTALS, and gives you PROTECTION.
There are lots of chants available online you can use one.

FAQ’S
1. can I get dedicated?
Yes, anyone can get dedicated, but you have to cleanse yourself from inside out.
You should have clear idea of what you are doing, you just should not get into wicca because your friend has, the consequence can be dangerous.

2. do we need some guide to get dedication?
If you are getting dedicated into wicca and don’t have much to do with witchcraft, then you can get dedicated without a guru, but having one is always advantageous…

3. are there any guidelines to follow?
Well yes, you have to follow the wiccan rede and most important of them all, don’t forget the three fold law And ye harm none, do what ye will.

4. are there any rules for chants?
No, there are no specific rule but one, they should rhyme so as to be effective.

5. what should be there in a chant?
In a ritual, you should have chants to
To praise the elementals, to invoke them, to praise the goddess, to invoke her, to praise the god, and to invoke him, to thank them all, to protect you(during this one you should imagine yourself tobe surrounded with the graceful light from the moon and gaea..

6. what does a chant look like.?
A chant looks like this,

Great Goddess, bright Lady of the awakened soul,
Accept me.........(Your witch-name)as your priest/ess.
At important hour of my life, I dedicate myself in your name, Isis, Aradia, Diana.

O Mother Goddess,
O Father God,
Answers to all mysteries and yet mysteries unanswered;
In this place of power I open myself to Your Essence.
In this place and in this time I am changed;
From hence forth I walk the Paths of the Craft.
I dedicate myself to you, Mother Goddess and Father God.

7. why do we need to burn our old clothes?
The burning of your old clothes are symbolic representation of your burning up your old personality, old bad habits, your fear, your ego, your pride.

After getting dedicated you have to get into inititation and different degrees of initiation.
However I have tried to correct to my knowledge in the above article, it is always possible to commit mistake, if you find anything wrong, you can suggest me. Also give your opinion on this article.
Take care…
Blessed be.