I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.
