Witches and Witchcrafts
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Background of the Study
Witches have long feared and hated in Christian circles. The creation of the concept of devil-worship,
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followed by its persecution, allowed the church to move easily subordinate people to authoritarian control and openly denigrate women. Most of what was passed off as witchcraft was simply fictional creations of the church, but some of it was genuine or almost genuine practices of pagans and wiccans.
In fact, the word “witch” from the Old English word “wicca”, which was applied to male and female members of an ancient pagan which reverse masculine, feminine and earth, both the next world and this world.
Significance of the Study
The study wants to indicate how witches live a long time ago and how they were living with the people. The researcher reckons to know everything that is all in this for it can help in some who wants to know or interested in witches, what they are doing, and why they are being hated by the people and the church. This study is being conducted to fill in man’s curiosity towards witchcrafts. Since many believe that they do exist a long tome ago, many of us are eager to know something about them.
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Study shows that witches has continued to evolve and are still living right now but some tries to ignore it
and believe that they do not have any powers at all. Some of us still believe they exist because some of us wants to cure some of our illness through not what we call witchcraft but a little of it and some of us are still using witchcraft in order to hurt other people because of envy, jealousy, anger and etc.
Statement of the Problem
This study would like to emphasize how was the witches be able to live in this world and what they are doing.
It also seeks to clarify these interrogations:
- Who are the ancient healers?
- Who are the witches?
- What is the “burning times”?
- What are magic and spells?
Scope and Delimitations of the Study
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This study tries to indicate how witches are able to spend their time living with the people and how they were able to help them in their problems and sickness. It also
tries to explain why witches were viewed as uncontrollable and dangerous by the people in the society in which they believe that they have supernatural powers that comes from the devil.
Definition of Terms
Ancient- This word describes someone or something that has lasted a very long time.
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Healers- This relates to people who lived thousands of years ago, and to their way of life.
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Witches- This is a person, esp. a woman, having supernatural power as by a compact with the devil or evil spirits.
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Witchcrafts- This is the practice of magic, especially for evil purposes.
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- This is an instance of the use of black magic or white magic
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Magic- This word speaks about the use of spells, charms, and rituals in seeking or pretending to cause or control events or to govern certain natural or supernatural forces.
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Spells- This means a word, formula, or form of words thought to have some magic power.
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CHAPTER II
Review of Related Literature
I. The Ancient Healers
The word witch means different things to different people. To some, it conjures up images of the attractive young woman from the television show Sabrina the Teenage witch, or Samantha from the television show Bewitched. These “good” witches use their magical powers for good deeds, to punish bad people, or simply to create mischief.
Others think of a witch as an ugly old hag with warts on her nose, a long black robe, and flies across the sky on a broom, and cackles loudly at the misfortune of others. This more traditional image of a wicked witch is well-known from the movies such as The Wizard of Oz and the countless fairy tales throughout the centuries.
In recent times, another sort of witch has emerged- one of whose image exists somewhere between hag in black and the pretty blonde pixie who creates magic by twitching her nose. These modern witches belong to a religion known as Wicca. These witches, both women and men- believe they can peer into the future, manipulate the forces of nature, and bring love and money into the people’s lives.
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- The Many Meanings of Witch
The witch comes from the Old English word wicca, meaning male witch, or wicce, meaning female witch. In that language used in the Middle Ages, to wiccian meant to cast a spell, or to bewitch someone. Modern Wiccas say that witch really comes from the word witan or wise one, and witchcraft is the craft of the wise.
In spite of its innocent-sounding origins, for hundreds of years the word witch has been associated with innumerable negative images including devil-worshipers and old hags who committed scores of evil deeds.
But the roots of witchcraft date back to ancient times, when witches were the healers of mind and body who worshiped the nature and the earth. The deeds of so-called witches were really quite benign: they had special knowledge of the healing properties of local plants and used this knowledge to treat their neighbours.
Thousands of years ago, before the advent
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