Phyllis Diller Quotes

I can't explain witchcraft.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well - a negative spiritual revolution.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

I don't really believe in the supernatural, as far as the negativity.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.