Top 100 Quotes About Witchcraft
#1. As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
John Ruskin
#2. Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.
Gerald Gardner
#3. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.
Richard Curtis
#4. Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.
Bob Dylan
#5. The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
Edmund Morgan
#6. Witchcraft was hung, in History,
But History and I
Find all the Witchcraft that we need
Around us, every Day -
Emily Dickinson
#7. 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.
Peter Hollingworth
#8. Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy ...
Tanya Luhrmann
#9. I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
J.K. Rowling
#10. I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#11. Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.
Nirmala Srivastava
#12. Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.
Orson Scott Card
#13. Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ...
Matthew Arnold
#14. Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
Neil Gaiman
#16. There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora
April Aasheim
#17. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.
William Shakespeare
#18. A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!
Andrea Zuvich
#19. The woman's touch is witchcraft. It's a sin to give in, but seeing as sinning is my specialty, I let her dark magic consume me, because what do I have to lose?
J.M. Darhower
#20. Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.
Christopher Penczak
#21. You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
Kenneth Oppel
#22. There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.
Kate Inglis
#23. Witchcraft promotes the advantages of learning and applying new symbolism into one's psyche, this is the witches code.
Gede Parma
#24. Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.
Starhawk
#25. When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.
Peter Jackson
#26. I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.
George W. Bush
#27. Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Does not ... the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.
Vivianne Crowley
#30. Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
George Bernard Shaw
#31. If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
Andre Malraux
#32. And here, she said to herself, is the victim of the witch hunt, or its modern equivalent. Not much has changed. Witchcraft or sexual harassment: the tactics of persecution were much the same - the loathed enemy was identified and then demonised.
Alexander McCall Smith
#33. John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.
Rupert Hughes
#35. Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Isak Dinesen
#37. I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.
Florence Welch
#38. Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.
Stacy Schiff
#39. The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.
Joe Hill
#40. A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.
Jeremy Clarkson
#41. The guy appeared to be on the verge of tears.
"Zere is no more bread," he confessed tragically, like someone admitting witchcraft to the Inquisition.
Karen Chance
#42. We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human
Emilie Autumn
#43. Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'
'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
Al Yankovic
#45. You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
Peter S. Beagle
#46. To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?
H.P. Lovecraft
#47. Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.
John Wesley
#48. I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
Anthony Horowitz
#49. I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do,
Christine O'Donnell
#50. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient
Steven Pinker
#51. Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that.
Terry Pratchett
#52. Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society.
I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.
Toba Beta
#53. Elf magic," Mallory said. "Sneaky Vanir-style witchcraft unfit for a true warrior." She punched me in the arm. "I like you better already.
Rick Riordan
#54. Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#55. I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.
Amy Sedaris
#56. Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.
Nikita Gill
#57. A meteorologist might beg to differ, but weather prediction was an act of infidel witchcraft that could not be trusted.
Anthony Marra
#58. Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#59. Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.
Billy Graham
#60. Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!
T. B. Joshua
#62. Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.
Emily Dickinson
#63. True Witchcraft is a path of lifelong self-education.
NOT initiation.
Dacha Avelin
#64. He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.
Taylor Rhodes
#65. The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
John C. Bogle
#66. 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.
Anne Rice
#67. This diary holds memories of terrible things. Things that were covered up. Things that happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
J.K. Rowling
#68. I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed - then
Umberto Eco
#69. Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#70. in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft.
James A. Connor
#71. Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
Bernie Taupin
#72. Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
Will Rogers
#73. Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
Mark Gatiss
#74. I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.
Peter Hollingworth
#75. Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.
Sloane Crosley
#76. Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
Kangana Ranaut
#77. And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
Karen Blixen
#78. Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
#79. Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin
#80. Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Starhawk
#81. Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.
Marian Keyes
#82. I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.
Afrika Bambaataa
#83. Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.
Starhawk
#84. Freedom found me the day I realized I was not bound to witchcraft. The FATHER was waiting, He was scanning the horizon for the day I would realize I could come home. And He ran to welcome me into His loving arms.
Kristine McGuire
#85. I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
Cass McCombs
#86. Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.
Starhawk
#87. Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real
Robert Mugabe
#88. She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.
Octavia E. Butler
#89. Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.
Arthur Kornberg
#90. Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.
Dacha Avelin
#91. Here, in this universe, what differentiated science from witchcraft was that scientists had fewer resources and couldn't magically manipulate the natural world by will alone.
Josephine Angelini
#92. You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
William Shakespeare
#93. Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
Anais Nin
#94. Fear believes - courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays - courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism - courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science.
Dale McGowan
#95. Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up
Wounds when the balsam could not, and without
The aid of salves:
to think hath been a cure.
For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force
Of mere imagination.
William Cartwright
#96. In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
Starhawk
#97. There is a collective force reawakening on the Earth each day: the reawakening of the Witch. Within every woman drawn to the path of witchcraft resides the powerful spirit of the Witch.
Dacha Avelin
#98. Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
David Hume
#99. Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P.T. Barnum
#100. Presumably, God could have written these books any way He wanted. And if He wanted them to be understood in the spirit of twenty-first-century secular rationality, He could have left out all those bits about stoning people to death for adultery or witchcraft.
Sam Harris
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