withcraft and black magic

Samantha Albano
MIS.Olivas
Per.6
May-6-10

Witchcraft is also the samething as black magic. Black magic has been practice for many years.
Witchcraft had been the oldest practices and wicca is a old religion. The religion for withcraft is wicca.They,wicca, believe in nature and they have rituals around the pentagrams. Mostly what people think of practicing black magic is that the same thing as satanism.


When you are in Scotland, and you see a magpies,it is said that the devil’s own bird and have not holy drop of blood of the devils under their tongues. In England and Scotland, its not lucky to see a magpie fly away fron the sun. One magpie is filled with bad luck. Two magpies tell good luck. There is a childhoods rhyme that indicates the magical nature of magpies:
“ One for sorrow, Two for happiness, three for the girl, Four for the boy,
Five for the silver, Sixth for the gold, Seventh for the secret that is never
Been told.”

Duende means “Dueno’ in spanish and “owner” from mythology. It is the same to us like a goblin, elf, or a fairy. In mythology term for duende has a crucial meaning, also to performing artist. It reminds the artist of his or her nature and urging her in because there is not that much time. Duende siezes the audience and artist to demand thet they can surrender to music, dance, or spoken poetry. The duende only posses those that have already have darkness with their souls. The duendes is dark spirits that has a reputation for mischeif and possessing the unexspected.

During the rituals, they do dances that is related to the spirit world. The sufi dance became aware of the relatioship to the spirit world. During that dance, he loses conscousness and falls to the ground. During the dances aor celebrations, male and famale wear the domino. The domino means is from a latin word
Dominus. The domino is a black hooded cape with a eye mask that is completely to gender and identity. The aberrations of the city now came under the prediction of invisabl lords of misrule.

There are historical witches that believed they seen the devil. They say the the devil appeared on sabbath in different animal forms. He appears as a bull,ram.goat, and a black dog. There is a guy that climed to seen the devil as a human. Doctor murray say that the devil was in a human form being and sometimes appeared in a costum of time, or in a mask.

Voodoo is almost the samething as witchcraft. Voodoo and witchcraft should only be used for good reasons. Witchcraft is science and a power of the subconsious mind. The subconsious mind plays a important role. To do a ritual, you need candle and incense. Candle and incense is important in witchcraft because it is to infuse the posititve energies. Get four candles and eight incense sticks while practicing magic.

Voodoo is like witchcraft because it has magic to it. Voodoo is discovered in Africa by african tribes that believed in magic. Voodoo and witchcraft are used for loving, healing, protection and good luck. Voodoo is also used to disturbed others. Like eight incense and four candles, voodooism usees a voodoo doll. How they use the voodoo doll is that they put bad or good energie to a pin and put it on the doll. There are two different colored pins. The black is bad luck and the red is good luck.

Voodoo and witchcraft have energie and the power of the mind. You can put bad or good energie of your mind to get anything you want. Witchcraft and voodoo are actually used to cure, heal, protect. The priestess of voodoo does not use harm or destroy anyone or anything but themselves.they do that for a good purpose.

Pentagrams is a star that represents the five elements. Ther are different pentagrams beside the one for witchcraft. There is a celtic pentagram, satanic pentagram, wiccan pentagram, silver pentagram and more. Pentagram is from a greek word pente that is mean five and gram that is mean to write. It is often used as to symmetrical five pointed star. A upright pentagram is a five pointed that has ine point that is aligned up. A inverted pentagram is a five pointed star that has two pointed aligned upwards. A upright pentagrame is defined as a pentagram that is surrounded by a circle. Upright pentagrams and pentagrams are the most used religious symbols. They been used in many eras and many cultures and religions of the world.Not only witchcraft uses pentagrams, but ancient Pagans, ancient Israelites, Christians, magicians, Wiccans and others uses them too. In the religion of wicca, it’s a part in the celtic dieties, days and symbols.
In the twentyeth centuary, Satanist inverted the pentagram and made up their own symbol. The symbol has a head of a goat. The symbols with the goat’s head is called Sigl of Baphomet. They got that from two Greek words, baphe and metis, that means "absorption of knowledge." It has a lot of names like: the Black Goat, Devil's Goat, Goat Head, Goat of Mendes, and Judas Goat. To christains, The devil is evil and dark.
Wiccans does not recognized what the liberal christians thinks. Satanist remember and recognized satan a living diety and or priciple. While witchcraft is not used to put spells, satanist are allowed to use magic to hurt their enemies. Native Americans uses witchcraft just like wiccans. Satanist, on the other hand, practices vengeance.
Evangelical christains have a different view of satanism and withcraft. They believe that witchcraft has gods and goddessess and satanism has a the devil and demons. They also believed that the devil is a living entity. Some of the evangelical christians don’t think theres a difference in satanism and withcraft. They also think they perfrom black masses instead of black magic.
Native American are known to use black magic. This kind of black magic is different from withcraft though. Native Americans believed in nature and peace. Their pentagrams is not a five pointed that presents the five elements, but they used the medicine wheel. It Symbolizes a journey that we take to find our own. The medicine wheel is the four directions and the four sacred colors. The sacred colors is represents the circle of life and on the center of the circle is the enternal fire. There is a eagle, and when it flies to the east, its symbolizes strength,endurance and visions. The east presents the renewal of life and rebirth.
When its East the color is going to be red and it means success and triumph. The north is blue and it means defeat and trouble. The west is black; and black means death. The south is white and white is the opposite of black and it means peace and happiness. There is three sacred directions. The up above is yellow, the down abelow is brown and the center is green.
They believed that seasons and some colors means something to them. Winter is the go-la and the color is is blue for the north that means sadness and defeat. Winter means survival and waiting. In cherokee, north means “cold”. Spring is gi-la-go-ge and the color is red which means victory and power. Sprinf is known for re-awakening after a long sleep or nap. Also victory against winter and new life. Summer is the south for the color is white and means peace happiness and serenity. Summer meanstime of plenty. Autumn is u-la-go-hv-s-di and the color for that is black that represents death for the west.
The colors always means something. Red means of success of doing something. Black is always means death. Blue means failure, dissapointment. Whit means peace and honor. Even numbers is sacred to them. Only two numbers is important. Four and seven is very important and means something. Four means and represents the four directions. Seven represents north.east, south,west, above bellow and here in the center.
The medicine wheel means of bringing new life and new lessons. It teaches them that all the lessons are eqaul so are talents and beauty. The wheel is never going to end, so as life. The dances they do is to celebrate a loved one or something. They believe in nature and the medicine wheel. Witchcraft and native americans have some stuff in common, but not all. They use to think that the owl used to be bad luck. They used amulets and charms to do theit own rituals. While doing the rituals, they sang sacred hymns. They uses a sacred pipe that is very important to them.
Medieval witchcraft has been practice when man was born. They do witchcraft and asking evil spirits for help and during their rituals, they drew their own blood. A lot of people were paranoid about it because of satan. Satan is the great enemy of god and the church. The people that were accused were called heretics. Once cought, they were the victims that was tortured or burnt alive during the inquistion. Egyptian witchcraft is based on song, poetry, drama, magic and harmony. The people who practice it is doing it to honor the gods and godessess.
The egyption use the wheel of the year as there own pentagram. They perform magic at gatherings that is called Moon Celebrations or Esbates. What thet used is a ritual knife called a sacred blade or anthame. Withcraft is known around the world. The samething happened in Selem, Mass. The people were accused of doing witchcraft. Some were blamed by other people or their nieghbors. They all die in horrible deaths. If they didn’t confess, the prosicuters will wieght them with rocks till they say something.
Some got hung like Sarah Good and Bridgette Bishop. The last words Sarah Good said to the person that is going to hung her was “god will give you blood to drink”. In 1957, Massachusttes apologizes for what happen in 1692.On that night, He died by chokinf on his own blood. In 1992, it was the three houndred anniversary of the witchtrials. Salem village changed its named to danvers.
People have different traditions and believes. Some do witchcrafts like the same way but different. They don’t use pentagrams or incense. They used something different that is related to withcraft. It still happening and people are still practicing it today.