Witch Craft

Witch craft is just the property of humans, you must keep fear and control under control. According to most people who do not know about the witch craft, it is a ghost. Which, he saw invisibly, they can only feel what they had in their imagination, terrible faces, weed clothes, for the most part are bleeds. But in fact, witch craft is a distinction of human kind, but they do not want to tell you about this property, if you are under them, they will never be satisfied with your work, will always scold you and disappoint you.
Witchcraft (or witchcraft) is the practice of magical skills and abilities. Witchcraft is a broad term that varies culturally and socially, and thus can be difficult to define with precision; Therefore, cross-cultural beliefs about the meaning or significance of the word should be applied with caution.

Historically, and currently in most traditional cultures around the world - particularly in Asia, South America, Africa, African diaspora and indigenous communities - the term has generally been associated with those who harm innocent people Use spiritual means for.  In the modern era, mainly in Western popular culture, the term can usually refer to the gentle, positive, or neutral practices of modern paganism,  Such as divination or spelling. 

Belief in witchcraft often exists within societies and groups whose cultural structures include a magical world view. Belief in the concept of witchcraft and its existence is sustained throughout recorded history. They have existed or been central to cultures and religions around the world at various times and in many diverse forms, including primitive and highly advanced cultures,  and still play an important role in many cultures today. 

Historically, the dominant concept of witchcraft in the Western world derives from the laws of the Old Testament against witchcraft, and entered the mainstream when belief in witchcraft gained church approval in the early modern period. This reflects a theosophical conflict between good and evil, where witchcraft was generally evil and often associated with devil and devil worship. This led to widespread witch-trials and witch-hunting (blamed for tyranny),  and many years of witch-hunting and witch-hunting, especially in Protestant Europe, of the European era. Finished before Enlightenment. In modern day Christian views are diverse and cover the gamut of ideas from deep faith and opposition (especially by Christian fundamentalists) to non-faith, and even approval in some churches. From the mid-20th century, witchcraft - sometimes referred to as contemporary witchcraft, to distinguish it clearly from earlier beliefs - became the name of a branch of modern paganism. It is most prevalent in Wikken and modern witchcraft traditions, and is no longer practiced in secrecy. 

The Western mainstream Christian view is far from the only sociological view of witchcraft. Extensive practices and cultural beliefs continue in many cultures throughout the world, translated into English as "witchcraft", although the English translation provides a place for their forms, magical beliefs, practices, and place in their societies There is a huge variety. During the era of colonialism, many cultures around the world were exposed to colonialism in the modern Western world, usually before intensive Christian missionary activity (see "Christianization"). Beliefs in these cultures that were related to witchcraft and magic were influenced by the prevailing Western concepts of the time. Witch-hunting, scapegoats, and the murder or witchcraft of suspected witches still occur in the modern era. 

Due to beliefs about the disease caused by witchcraft, the suspicion of modern medicine also continues in many countries even today, which has sad health consequences. HIV / AIDS  and Ebola virus disease  are two examples of the often-fatal infectious disease epidemic, whose medical care and prevention have been severely hampered by regional beliefs in witchcraft. Other serious medical conditions whose treatment is thus interrupted include tuberculosis, leprosy, epilepsy and the common severe bacterial Burley ulcer.

The word witch is of uncertain origin. There are many derivatives that can be derived from it. A popular belief is that it relates to the English words "wit, intelligent, wisdom [Germanic root * weit-, * wait- * wit-; Indo-European origin * weid-, * woid-, * wide-];" Hence "craft of the wise." Another is from Old English, a compound of "witch" ("witch") and "crate" ("craft").

It is argued that the healing arts played an important and sometimes important role in seventeenth-century New England witchcraft disputes. Not only were physicians and surgeons the key professional arbiters for determining natural versus unnatural signs and symptoms of illness, they occupied key legislative, judicial, and ministerial roles related to witchcraft proceedings. The names of six male physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries belong to New England witchcraft in court scripts or other contemporary source materials. These physicians worked on interrogation of coroners, performed autopsy, testified, issued writ, wrote letters, or sent people to prison in addition to diagnosing and treating patients. Some physicians are referred to as having just passed.
Belief in malicious magic practices exists, such practitioners are generally considered prohibited by law and hated and feared by the general population, while beneficial magic is tolerated or accepted by people - even if conservative The establishment opposes this. 

spell casting
See also: Magic (Paranormal)
Probably the most widely known feature of a witch was the ability to cast a spell, the term "spelling" used to denote the means employed to perform a magical action. A mantra may include a set of words, a sutra or poem, or a ritual verb, or any combination of these.  Spells were traditionally given by several methods, such as by the inscription of a run or sigil on an object to give magical power to that object; By immersion or bonding of a person's wax or clay image (poppet) to magically affect them; By recitation of the Bhasmas; By performing physical rituals; By the employment of magical herbs in the form of amulets or potions; For purposes of divination by glass, sword or other divination (peek); And many other means. 

Necromancy (grooming the dead)
Strictly speaking, "necromancy" is the practice of mixing the souls of the dead for speculation or prophecy - though the term is also applied to raise the dead for other purposes. The biblical witch of Endor performed it (1 Sam. 28), and it is in the midst of the witch's practice, condemned by Yunsham of Yunsham: 28  "The witches still cross-road and with themselves Go to the burial call out deceptive magic and the devil, and he comes to the likeness of the man who is buried there, as if it arises from death. "

Demonology
Main article: Daemonology
In Christianity and Islam [citation needed], sorcery was combined with heretics and apostasy and viewed as evil. Between Catholics, Protestants, and the secular leadership of the European late medieval / early modern period, apprehension about witchcraft rose to a fever pitch and sometimes led to rampant witch-hunting. The major century was the fifteenth, which saw a dramatic rise in witchcraft and witchcraft terror, culminating in the publication of Malles Maleficarum, but produced by staunch fanatics such as Bernardino of Siena.  In total, tens or hundreds of thousands of people were executed, and others were imprisoned, tortured, deported, and confiscated land and property. Most of those accused were women, although in some areas the majority were men.  In early modern Scots, the term warlock is used as a male equivalent of a witch (which may be male or female, but is used primarily for women). 

Maelles melficherum, (Latin for "Witch of the Witch") was a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by two German monks, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Spranger. It was used by both Catholics and Protestants [38] for several hundred years, describing how a witch is identified, what makes a woman more likely than a man to be a witch, how a witch is on trial. How to be kept and punished The book defines a witch as evil and usually female. The book became the handbook for secular courts in Renaissance Europe, but was not used by Inquisition, which also warned against relying on the work. 

White witches
Main article: White Witch
More information: Folk Religion, Magical Thinking, and Laborism

A painting at the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria, sorcery and condemnation of traditional folk magic
During the early modern period, the English word "witch" was not particularly negative in meaning, and could also indicate clever folk. As Alan Macfarlane stated, "There were many interchangeable words for these practitioners, 'white', 'good', or 'unbinding' witches, blessings, sorcerers, magicians, though 'cunning-man' and 'wise-man'" Most often. " Contemporary Reginald Scott explained," To this day in the English language it is indifferent to say, 'She is a witch' or 'She is a wise woman. "