Tina Turner Quotes

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

I don't believe in voodoo.

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

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.

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

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

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

My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she was a witch and that my grandmother was also a witch. It was late at night, and she was really sleepy, but I took it very seriously because I always wanted to go to Hogwarts.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

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

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

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

The Reign of the Witches

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

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.

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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 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 believe in magic, psychics and all that.