Hailey Gates Quotes

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

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

I dabbled in witchcraft but I never joined a coven… I had a date at an alter once.

The Reign of the Witches

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

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 used to practice Wicca.

I really don't believe in magic.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

I don't believe in voodoo.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

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.

During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumb-screws, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry.....There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed.

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

In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to think that centuries of advances in science and education have made people less prey to phantasms and falsehoods.

I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a wonderful compilation of primary sources about witchcraft.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

I think I'm a witch because I'm very connected to nature.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.