With Witchcraft All Is Darkness

Witchcraft has existed for centuries, side by side with religion, medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Mostly, it has been associated with the Dark Side of humankind.

There are not many documents glorifying witchcraft as a way of life, in spite of the Harry Potter books and films, or the books of such authors as Dennis Wheatley and Edgar Alan Poe.

In Europe and the United States, there were periods when people alleged to be practicing witchcraft were hanged or burnt at the stake. They were seen as representing The Devil himself, merchants of death and destruction.

In Africa, the so-called Dark Continent, there has been witchcraft in almost every society. Growing up even in the urban areas of colonial Southern Africa, you were warned against witchcraft, not only by the white Christian settlers, but also even by your own elders. It dealt mostly with revenge and death, you were told, and was to be avoided like…. the plague. Full Story

Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells