Thomas Browne Quotes

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

There is no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

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.

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

I really don't believe in magic.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

It's a bit like the search for witches. You can always find them.

Carefully take notice of witches, charmers, and all such abusers of the people.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The Reign of the Witches

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

I'm like a witch! You can't kill me!

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

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.