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RE: Witchcraft Wednesdays: Witchcraft vs Wicca

in #witchcraft7 years ago

Exactly. Wicca is a facet of witchcraft, and should not be confused with the greater whole. I also consider myself to be solitary eclectic because I incorporate many aspects of the craft into my personal system that no one label outside of that can really encompass it all. I also think that the media and Hollywood seem to be contributing to that, but more in the sense that witchcraft is evil and all that jazz as opposed to witchcraft and Wicca being the same practice. To be fair, however, just as Wicca is one facet to witchcraft so is Satanism. Like any religious structure Satanism is subject to some people forming cults around the belief system and abusing it, but most Satanists are just like anyone else in witchcraft - they want to be free to practice their beliefs without judgment or persecution and their beliefs are extremely misunderstood because of the media.

My only other post was last Wednesday when I gave a short introduction to what witchcraft is to the best of my ability to describe it. But Witchcraft Wednesdays are a thing I plan on doing for as long as I can to cover a variety of topics within witchcraft itself and hopefully help dispel some of the myths about it :)

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Awesome @sigilmancy! I look forward to reading more from you on the topic! I have difficulty finding people that have an honest and traditional interest in it. Even on Facebook, the groups I have found are just full of uninformed posers I guess is a good word. Like, after they saw certain movies or tv shows, they follow it as the latest fad, or it becomes "trendy," rather than a deeply-rooted belief system. Glad I came across your profile.

Thank you! tumblr is a great place to look if you're at all interested in that, many of the big names there are great people with actual rooted belief systems as opposed to the Facebook groups. I know what you're talking about with them, that was my experience with a lot of trying to look into witchcraft at first using the internet and they're just as useful as the books I talked about. Great if you know to look at what they're doing with a critical eye and take it with a grain of salt, bad for newbies looking to actually get interested in things and oldies looking for more people like themselves.

Oh, okay, I've never even gone to tumblr, I will check it out!

If you need help or want the names of good people to follow let me know, tumblr can take some getting used to but it has by far been the greatest internet resource for witchcraft I've ever come across because of the people there ^^

Okay, cool, thank you... I will get an account set up later on this afternoon... gotta go to the store soon (blah, it's cold!)... Are you on there with the same profile name @sigilmancy?

It's cold here too, so I feel that one XD

I have a few blogs on tumblr but my witchcraft related one is over here since my main is under another name (sigilmancy was taken) and my main is kind of a random mish-mash of my more 'typical' life with like fandoms and junk.

Great! I will look for you there, thanks again for hooking me up! Will talk again soon!

No problem, I look forward to seeing you there! :D