(05-14-2024, 02:49 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: What constitutes witchcraft is a matter of perspective. My mother was a practicing witch for years as was I but neither are now. I never made a "pact with Satan", only Satanists do that. The Bible is very wishy washy on the subject. It tells you "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and yet sings the praises of Solomon and he was a bigger witch than Aleister Crowley!
As long as you're not trying to harm anyone (follow the Law of Three) I have no problem with witches. They are just people with different beliefs. I'd hang out with a witch before I would hang out with "snake handlers". I wouldn't lump all witches together anymore than I'd lump Pentecostals with Moonies. Intent is what matters.
Don't forget Saul - he went and consulted with some witch, too. I reckon Saul eventually got smote - although it doesn't specify whether it was for consorting with witches or not - but no word on whether the witch eventually got smote, too.
Is that "Law of Three" where, if you fling an evil hex on someone, it'll come back on you threefold? I think some covens say tenfold, but I might be missing what the Law of Three means. "Three" meant a lot to folks in old timey witchcraft. You had the "threefold goddess", usually exemplified by the Morrigan - "maiden, matron, and crone", and then you also had the Welsh Triad laws, where every law was stated 3 different ways. My guess is that reverence for "threes" made it a lot easier for Island Celts to accept the notion of a "trinity" when Christianity came calling on them.
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