The term’witchcraft’ has different meanings for different people and different cultures. There is no way to’nail down’ a particular definition for the term’witchcraft’ aside from to point out is it a craft practiced by witches.
You can’t call’witchcraft’ a particular religion. Witchcraft has been found in several different cultures and on all continents in some form, both presently and historically. There are common threads that run through all of the several ways in which witchcraft is practiced. As an example :
There are religious elements that include spirits and/or deities.
* There are connotations that deal with the afterlife.
* magic is a part of all the many forms of sorcery.
The term’witchcraft’ has been used to outline any practice that involves sorcery, and the term’witchcraft’ looks to be defined by the culture and values endorsed by each community. Magic is viewed by different groups with varying degrees of respect, suspicion, or indifference. But most cultures define their own version of magic as either’good’ or’evil,’ and there is not any middle ground.
Many see witchcraft in any form in the same light that they view devilish ritual abuse ( SRA ). SRA is seen as physical and pedophilia related to satanic rituals or the occult. To these people it means that anything even remotely related to sorcery is evil.
The label’witchcraft’ has been applied by most to any practice that is used to influence or control another person’s mind or body against his or her will and for evil purposes which will undermine the accepted social or religious order.
It is frequently tough to distinguish bad sorcery or’black magic’ from good magic or’white magic.’ White sorcery is
designed to protect humans from black magic spells but white magic also uses’spells’ and’connotations.’
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