Kerli Quotes

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I'm pagan.

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

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

I used to practice Wicca.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

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.

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 witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications

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

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

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

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

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.

The difference between white witches and dark witches is that a white witch is very spiritual, into nature and can make magic happen. That is me.

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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