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Care to prove that?


How can you be a shaman through blood right? Don't you have to learn it first?

Lavey Satanism you're talking about, hopefully. xP


If you really want to know the truth about a fertility cult I suggest you read the works of Gerald Gardner who made the religion through a bunch of other different practices.
Some of his books can be found online here: This seems like a good source to me.


Where do you get this information from?
What book said that, and how sure are you that oath breakers to the coven don't pass there after death?
It was in the 161 laws, how could you deny it?

If you really want to get down to it, all religions came from animism. It's been changed and refined, bits have been cut away and bits have been added.
All religions have a couple things in common though, the inability of the believer to accept that the world is a product of random chance and that they will cease to exist.
The need of the believer to feel that they have supernatural abilities, whether these abilities are to please a deity so it will act on their behalf, personal power, or the ability to counteract the very essence of nature. To break from the cycle of death of the old and birth of the new by never dying(belief in immortal soul, not physical immortality usually).
Most people also desire a reward for doing 'good' and want other people to think they'll be punished for doing 'bad'.
[source= logic and common sense, also my 10th grade AP World History book by Peter Stern I believe.]

To my knowledge, buddhism is the sole exception to this generalization. [Herman Hesse's Siddartha gives a good grounding in Buddhist spirituality, their exact beliefs and rules can be found online]

Wicca is just one of many religions that recognize the importance of energy, whether you call it Chi(Chinese), life force(common), pranic energy(sanguinarians), The All (pagan), the divine, psionic energy, gaea/gaia, g-d, YHWH, or the Goddess herself, it's all the same thing and it pervades all that exists. It's real, you can feel it, you can move it, transfer it, infuse it with your intentions, shape it, whatever. It's existence is a fact, but that's the only thing about you can really state, everyone has different beliefs regarding it's origin, properties, and rules regarding the ability to do anything with it. No one can really refute the existence of non-physical energy, anyone can feel people's moods.
[You can learn all this with just a little research, Philosophy of Wicca talks a little about it.]

The second thing that unequivically exists is the Astral Plane, again it has many different names in different belief systems, the basic gist is that disincarnate spirits reside there, we can travel there and everything we see there is colored by what we believe. Many belief systems give it different levels, some ennumerate several planes of existence sometimes including the the astral, the ethereal, and many subtler planes. Some belief systems include little or no mention of it, but some people have physically manifested things from the astral realm, so I'll go out on a limb and say it exists. If you want sources, try Laurie Cabot's Power of the Witch and John Magnus's Astral Projection and the Nature of reality. Especially the second because it is not colored by religion.

Going specifically in the origin of Wicca, the word was used to describe non-christians in almost as broad a way as the word pagan once upon a time (the law codes of Alfred the Great in 890 used the term Wicca, that's the earliests source I know) Shortly before Gerald Gardner published his first book (1949, I believe) J.R.R. Tolkien used the term "Wicca" to describe his character gandalf in a draft(So he didn't pull it out of his butt then either, people knew the word). Wicca is the masculine singular form, Wiccan is masculine plural, Wicce and Wiccen are female singular and plural respectively. In English we usually leave off the gender endings leaving us with "Witch" a gender-neutral term.
Gardner also claimed to have learned from other Wiccan (So apparently he didn't quite invent it) And supplemented what he learned with a hodge podge of other religions to flesh it out. The usual comeback to this is that Gardner was shown to be lying about finding a coven so he really did invent it, well he was heavily influenced by many other groups and by ceremonial magic, so actually no, he still didn't quite invent it.
The term Wicca and it's meaning have changed alot over time, some like to think that in reference to religion it can only refer to Gardnerian witchcraft, well it originally probably reffered to druids (Circa 890). So Gardner wasn't the first to use it in referrence to religion either. Tough nuts.

I think it has more to do with pretending it had something to do with the witch trials, but I wasn't around then and can't say anything definitively.

I know some witches nowadays who could benefit from some secrecy laws though, getting themselves grounded and their things (sometimes my things) burned by their parents.

why would u have one of those boards, and the mom was stupid u dont burn those boards the spirits are free to harass anyone now

I didn't know that if the board is burnt that could happen. That is another interesting thing I heard about those Ouji boards... I hope what is happening upstairs and your room will get resolved tsuki. (If I may call you that.)

I find that Wicca is an interesting religion...