Witchcraft Quotes

• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

  Neil Gaiman

  Women, Book, Naked

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Christopher Penczak (2002). “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development”, p.25, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• 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

  Soul, Forests, Witch

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• That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

  Johnny Mercer

  Eye, Black, Magic

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• Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lust

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.138

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• The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

  Gerald Gardner

  Believe, Paganism, Wiccan

  Gerald Gardner (2004). “The Meaning of Witchcraft”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• 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

  Government, Sight, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.102, Modern Library

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• Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

  Isak Dinesen

  Art, Real

  "Letters from Africa: 1914-1931". Book edited by Frans Lasson translated by Anne Born, 1981.

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• You have witchcraft in your lips

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Lips

  1598-9 King Harry, wooing Catherine. HenryV, act 5, sc.2, l.274-6.

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• The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

  Margot Adler

  Paganism, Firsts, Wiccan

  Margot Adler (1997). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today”, Penguin Group USA

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• Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Baby, Thinking, Order

  "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

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

  Starhawk

  Paganism

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Stopping, Wells, Knows

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in the chapter 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O, 1967.

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• 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

  Song, Nature, Oneness

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• Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Believe, Results, I Believe

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• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

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• Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Love Life, Ethics, Form

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Husband, Children, Women

  "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

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• 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

  Feelings, Use, World

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• Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

  Leigh Brackett

  Simple, Ignorant

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• 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

  Animal, Average, Together

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Everyday

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• Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

  Emily Dickinson

  Needs, Hung

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.644, Harvard University Press

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• With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Color, Energy

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• Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

  Starhawk

  Community, Magic, Technique

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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