How do you become a witch? I've always been interested in witchcraft and magick but I've never known where to start or what to do
There is many methods that are made known in historical witch-trial records.
The most common seen is the ‘betwixt hand and foot’ method
“…putting one of my hands to the crown of my head and the other to the sole of my foot and renounced all betwixt my two hands to the Devil…” - Isobel Gowdie
Annabil Stewart was enticed by her mother to “put one hand to the crown of her head and the other to the sole of her foot, and did give up her self sole and body to the devil…”
From the Shetland Islands, one must go to the seashore at midnight and lie on the beach below the tidemark. Then the left hand be put under the soles of your feet, the right hand on the top of your head and repeat thrice: “the muckel maister Deil tak what’s atween dis twa hands!” Which seems to be a shortened version of the Orkney witch charm:
Another method is said that a Logan stone can grant you access to the otherworld and become a witch:
Sometimes a person was pursued by a familiar to make a pact rather than the devil himself. For example:
“Sometime in the beginning of the last century, two old dames attended the morning service at Llandaewi Brefi Church, and partook of the Holy Communion; but instead of eating the sacred bread like other communicants, they kept it in their mouths and went out. Then they walked round the Church outside nine times, and at the ninth time the Evil One came out from the Church wall in the form of a frog, to whom they gave the bread from their mouths, and by doing this wicked thing they were supposed to be selling themselves to the devil and become witches.” - Davies, p. 231. For a similar practice in modern England, see Transactions of the Devonshire Association. (1874), p. 201.]
“James Device, one of the chief of the Lancashire witches in 1613, confessed ‘that vpon Sheare Thursday was two yeares, his Grand−Mother Elizabeth Sothernes, alias Dembdike, did bid him this Examinate goe to the Church to receiue the Communion (the next day after being Good Friday) and then not to eate the Bread the Minister gaue him, but to bring it and deliuer it to such a thing as should meet him in his way homewards: Notwithstanding her perswasions, this Examinate did eate the Bread; and so in his comming homeward some fortie roodes off the said Church, there met him a thing in the shape of a Hare, who spoke vnto this Examinate, and asked him whether hee had brought the Bread.” - Potts, H 3.
And if the idea of the devil scares you then you need to look at him from a different perspective, he isn’t the evil force of Christianity that bids you only do harm and malice. He’s the horned one of the woods that is seen in almost every culture in one way or another, the witch father, the master of the sabbath, the liberator.
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