“ O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
“ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
“ It is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two. ”
- Lord Dunsany- Copy
“ A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
“ In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
“ A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
“ Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection. ”
- Starhawk- Copy
“ On every full moon, rituals... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics — women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life… ”
- Starhawk- Copy
“ I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. ”
- Yoko Ono- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
“ It is true... that the English in general, and indeed most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it, and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it… ”
- John Wesley- Copy
“ Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word! ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
“ When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
“ Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
“ There is a sort of Witchcrafts in those things, whereto the Temptations of the Devil would inveigle us. To worship the Devil is Witchcraft, and under that notion was our Lord urged unto sin. We are told in 1 Samuel 15:23, "Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft… ”
- Cotton Mather- Copy
“ I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
“ Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”
- Merrill Markoe- Copy
“ Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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