Wicca, Wiccan Magick, Witchcraft, and Magic Spells

In many parts of the world, the belief in sorcery never died. The witches do not hide their activities, and live as important members of the company. This occurs in the companies maories News Zealand, Barotse of Africa, and the quiche of Guatemala. Among the people of the islands of Marquesas, of the witches are respected, but fears as well are. All these companies believe that the magic is neutral. The witches can cure or curse, according to their character. Necromancy is largely drawn aside, and the witches operate the night most of the time. Spells and the incantations have the particular power when the witch employs parts of the body of the patient (or the victim). The parings and the hair of nail are the best. If not available, the witch can use clothing which was worn by the person. The magic magic beverages strongest are produced starting from the extremely unpleasant ingredients. The witch makes cook the brains of the died babies, menstrual blood, little of the human bones, the pieces of tomb stones, powder frogs and the clamping plates, and handled the beater blood. Obviously, all that is a low form of the old religion, corrupted during long centuries. She is not to interest in particular equal, unless one is student anthropology. But some companies maintained a relationship attractive with the old religion. Two forms are of particular interest. The first includes the witches who lived surrounded by the modern world, but maintained the old manners. The second are the groups really of insulation. An ancient group who survived in Europe, almost intact, are the witches Basques. They live in the sector between Scandinavian Spain and southernmost France. These witches maintained a system similar to the old men covens; they were relatively tolerated by the catholic church during centuries; and they observe a strict code by initiating new convert. Their order is directed by “Señora,” an immortal woman who lives in a cave in the Pyrenees. It is clearly a description of the goddess of mother in one of its much of appearances. The gipsies in England, at least those implied in sorcery, also have a woman as a their chief, but it should not be immortal. When the chief dies, they “adopt” a new chief. The leek of Sybil, the large English witch, was their chief during many years. Obviously, they adore a representation of the large goddess, a priestess, rather than the goddess itself. Voodoo has its bastion in Haiti and in the Western Indies. It is a mixture of the religions and Catholicism African, and embraces many gods. In Haiti the principal god is a large snake. Others are dad Legba, the guard of death, and Ogoun Badagris, “the bloody warrior. ” However, Jesus and the Mary Virgin are right like important. They put the Christian cross in each tomb, as well as symbols of the pagan gods. Much magic is carried out. Animal Necromancy and sacrifices play a part of the ritual. There are also much spirit digging of the drains and curative. Zombis, or the life completely, are ordered by a spirit called the baron Samedi. During the ritual one, it is represented by a cross out of wooden punt, preferably taken of a cemetery. The cross is equipped in a tailcoat and a large hat. When the necromancy is carried out, the baron Samedi is called in a cemetery. Three people must be present. They equip the cross on the tomb with traditional clothing with baron Samedi' S, and burn the incense and grasses. Then they ask its assistance. They know that the baron arrived when clothing on the aileron transversely like if disturbed by the wind. Some claim really to see it - a large black man with the white beard and the blind casings in its head, although it can see very well. The participants put to the corpse various questions. If it answers them, the corpse is rewarded by a time limited as a zombi. The zombi acts as a servant of the people which raised it, and carries out load for them. An interesting worship exists in Brazil. It is based on the possession of spirit, and the disciples are most of the time Brazilian Negroes. The gods had been brought from Africa, at the origin, but they adapted completely to the Brazilian life. To attend the ceremony, you should not be one believing. With usual Brazilian hospitality, no matter who is warmly well accomodated. The ceremony takes place in an opened house, with the sector crowned inside a balustrade. Many chairs and put except play are arranged for comfort spectators. There are ready drums, and one with such with images of the gods and saints catholic. Under the furnace bridge there are various basins containing the wine, the beer, the food and palm wine. Stones are arranged there for the visiting spirits, which will rest on them and will eat and drink the offers before having the media. The idea even is the possession. With the dance, the song, the tambourinage and the jolt of some marrow-like the musical instruments, the spirits, called the encantados, are invited to write the bodies of the media. Impassioning by heat, the dance and the music, the media enter a fright. One, they are had by the spirits. Fright goes almost all the night. The majority of the disciples of this system are poor and have the extremely hard lives. They believe that the supernatural world the assistance to survive the difficulties of this world. The encantados have pleasure to write the bodies of the alive beings, thus to become a medium is thus a responsibility for each person towards a specific spirit. They do not deny Christian God - on the contrary, they believe that it is the greatest power in the universe. They love Jesus and the Mary Virgin. But the small spirits of their old religion are much narrower. They take an interest for the lives of the people, and should be given the pleasure of presenting the bodies of the worshipers in the return. It is a pleasant and cordial system, and like sorcery, interested to carry out results. But the most important connection is the relationship with nature. All in kind is supposed to belong to the encantados - surface waters, of the forests, the animals and the birds. In a charming modern addition, the empty buildings also belong to them, because they claim the ground on which the empty house was built. While the house is occupied, the encantados pleasantly make it possible human to employ it. It is better not to return them annoyed. Like all the spirits, if not treated correctly, they returned it and can make a certain stupidity. But they never kill or torment no matter whom. With worse, they hide your possessions, claquent doors, frighten you by the whisper among themselves, or seem phantoms. Generally, it is easy of enrôler their assistance, and there is not no need for official witches and wizards. No matter who can join. Brazil has another form of worship, found most of the time around the fishing and of the sectors of navigation. It concentrates on the Iemanja goddess. She is a powerful, original entity in Africa, but transformed considerably. Iemanja is the queen of the sea, guard of the sailors and fishermen. All what die at sea go to its luxurious underwater palate, thus the sailors prefer that with dead in the bed. But it never drowns no matter whom itself. It is a kind, magnificiently beautiful goddess, rising from time to time sea to greet the sailors. They sing songs in its honor the night, when the trail of cumulate two uses of the glares on water. The storytellers indicate that they is the hair of Iemanja, floating on the waves. Obviously, Iemanja is a manifestation of the large goddess in one of its much of forms. The second form of sorcery of insulation includes Shamanism N Siberia, the Eskimos, the aboriginals of Australia and much of indigenous American tribes. The work of Shamans like the witches of traditional stone age and. They move between this world and the world of the spirits. The people count on Shamans to write the supernatural world and the dangerous act on their behalf. The herders of reindeer and the fishermen of Scandinavian Asia live around the Western shore of the Bering Sea. The majority are nomads which of phase in felt tents. To imagine to live a so hard life, surviving a long time, hard and threatening of the winters. When the work of the day more, it has there nothing to make but group in a hot and dark tent. By observing Shaman gather the spirits, or to have a contest with a demon disease-producer, is good recreation. It is also responsible to seek your heart if you precisely proved to have lost it by the disease, or if a demon attracted in the lower areas of nature. You can always make confidence in Shaman to recover it. Shamans in this sector have two spirits of guard. One is a kind, spirit of arrangement of Shaman length-death. The other is in the shape of an animal. It can be dangerous and crafty one, but very useful. The dress of Shamans admirably, the clothing made of skins and embroidered with the symbols of the trade. They carry usually a drum of tambourine, ready to be beaten by gathering spirits. The night, Shaman extinguishes all lights in the house or the tent. It starts to sing and beat the tambourine. The songs start gently, and then, slowly, develop in the intensity. Shaman enters a fright. Suddenly, the assistance hears other voices, made by various spirits. The assistance joins the song and the beat of drum, and starts to imitate the noises of the spirits. Shaman then is had by the spirits, and under their influence gives their messages to the people. Thereafter the spirits offered the good-bye of people. When the lights are still lit, Shaman will be found exhausted, perhaps even fainding, being on the floor. While entering in the world of spirit, Shaman the fact during the day. It immediately achieves this difficult adventure while being in two places. The body carries out dances in this world, showing with the assistances what its heart does in the other world. The dance can show combat, discussions, or anything else which arrive at the heart. Once the goal is achieved, the heart of Shaman returns to the body. There is as much Shamans female like males, and there is a complete equality between the sexes. It is because a shaman is considered asexual, and even the males carry symbols females on their decorated clothing. The anthropologists often noted that many people do not wish to be shamans. It takes a certain character, and of much in manners the personality resembles that of the witch. Meditation of in of hour of much of passer by of likes which of recluse of Shaman is one, and oars of sharp of usually D since childhood. Invariably, him or it is completely intelligent. The similarities among Shamans defy the geography. The indigenous soothsayers of South Africa are identified early, or can write the life because of a possession of disease or spirit. The same one is made by the indigenous Americans. The woman of Woyo of Western Africa must be had by a god, whereas always young people, and to be selected for the occupation of a soothsayer. She cannot write the formation without her. The aboriginals in Australia are strongly connected to the magic and sorcery. A great part follows the familiar lines, but a practice is of particular interest - the death caused by sorcery. If a person committed a particularly horrible crime, the wizard places a curse to completely do it “with half. ” The community withdraws itself from the person, and of the rites are carried out, proving that it is not any more part of the life, but are now a member of the company of deaths. In almost all the cases the person really dies, probably of the shock or the lack of desire of living in such circumstances. To add to that the fear located in-depth of sorcery, and a person is not likely any to survive of the whole. Some researchers believe that it was exactly the manner the people of stone age which their criminals punished. By observing these companies of insulation, and by comparing them with the sorcery of age stone, much can be indicated on the development of the old religion. Obviously, the supernatural world plays an important part in many lives, then as well as now. The disciple running of the old religion is always completely comfortable with this invisible world and his powers. But the witch forever ignored this world. It is impossible to separate the old religion from planet alive and breathing. The next chapter treats the immensely important relationship of sorcery with the factories and the animals. The love of nature is the core of the witches being - which is why they are seen as guards of the ground.