Witchcraft
Traditionally, witchcraft has been know to be the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers to control people’s events of actions. They are practices that typically involving sorcery or magic. It is at times defined differently in disparate historical and cultural minds.
witchcraft has often been seen, especially in the West side of the world. Western people always secretly during night meet up the crones and start their work. They come together in cannibalism and orgiastic and carry out rituals with the Devil, or Satan, and perform black magic .
Witchcraft is mainly forced on imagination of someone’s mind than in any objective reality. The intensity of these beliefs are always seen by the European witch hunts during the 14th to 18th century. Witchcraft and Sorcery
Sorcery
A good sorcerer, magician, wizard, or “witch” attempts to influence the surrounding world through occult which are hidden, as opposed to open and observable means. In Western society during the 14th century, “sorcerer” and witchcraft where commonly used by different societies such as those of India or Africa than it did with the witchcraft of the witch hunts.
Before the 14th century, witchcraft was commonly used in villages from Ireland to Russia and from Sweden to Sicily; however, the similarities derived neither from cultural diffusion nor from any secret cult but from the age-old human desire to achieve one’s purposes whether by open or occult means. Witchcraft and Sorcery
Incantations, chants invoking evil spirits, divination and oracles where used to predict the future in case someone wanted, amulets and charms were used to send off hostile spirits and harmful events, potions or salves, and dolls or other figures where to represent their enemies. Witches sought to gain or preserve health, to acquire or retain property.
Sorcery used witchcraft to protect their families against natural disasters or evil spirits, to help friends, and to seek revenge. Sometimes this magic was believed to work through simple causation as a form of technology. For example, it was believed that a field’s fertility could be increased by ritually slaughtering an animal.
.Sorcery was sometimes believed to rely on the power of gods or other spirits, leading to the belief that witches used demons in their work.
TYPES OF SORCERY
Cosmic sorcerer
- chaos sorcerers derive their power from the terrible and wondrous forces of the planes of power and Elemental Chaos. Extremely impressive founts of power, chaos sorcerers are often extremely dexterous as well,
Dragon sorcerer
- The dragon sorcerer. Granted magical power by some innate connection to dragons, either through blood ties or magical infusion. One method of infusion is being bathed in dragon blood as an infant, though a ritual blood transfusion later in life may also produce the desired effect. Witchcraft and Sorcery
Storm sorcerer
- The raw and unbridled fury of the storm is at the beck and call of these sorcerers. Though many fear the fury of lightning and the terrible sound of thunder, these mages revel in their power, internalizing these forces and then turning them back on their foes.
- The raw and unbridled fury of the storm is at the beck and call of these sorcerers. Though many fear the fury of lightning and the terrible sound of thunder, these mages revel in their power. Internalizing these forces and then turning them back on their foes.
Chaos sorcerer
- These sorcerers are linked with the heavenly bodies above Toril and gain power from the constant cycle of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Cosmic sorcerers manifest a certain heavenly body each day, which may change after a significant amount of combat
Witchcraft In Africa And The World
The same theroies between sorcery and witchcraft exists (sometimes more ambiguously) in the beliefs of many peoples throughout the world. Again, witches are typically seen as particularly active after dusk, when law-abiding mortals are asleep.
According to traditional AFRICAN belief, when a witch travels at night, he wears the skin of a dead animal in order to effect a transformation into that animal.
These witches where called “skin walkers”. They could hold nighttime meetings at which they wear nothing except a mask, sit among baskets of corpses, and have intercourse with dead women.
In some African cultures or traditionalls witches are believed to assemble in cannibal covens, often at graveyards or around a fire, to feast on the blood that they, like vampires, extract from their victims.
If they take the soul from a victim’s body and keep it in their possession, the victim will die. Like those in Western society suspected of child abuse and Satanism. African witches in the popular imagination are believed to practice incest and other perversions.
In many African cultures witches are believed to act unconsciously; unaware of the ill they cause, they are driven by irrepressible urges to act malevolently. It is thus easy for those accused of witchcraft, but who are not conscious of wishing anyone ill. To assume that they unknowingly did what is attributed to them.
This, along with the effects of suggestion and torture, in a world where people take the reality of witchcraft for granted, goes far to explain the striking confessions of guilt that are so widely reported in Africa and elsewhere and that are otherwise hard to comprehend. It is worth noting, however, that if witches believe they are unconscious agents. This is generally not the view of those who feel victimized by them.
