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• 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 Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, Bantam Classics

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• There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

  Edward Coke

  Belief, Parliament, Has Beens

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• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

  Starhawk

  Stars, Book, Teaching

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• [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Giving, World

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• You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Real, People, Comfort

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Males

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• Best Witchcraft is Geometry
  To the magician's mind -
  His ordinary acts are feats
  To thinking of mankind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1006, Harvard University Press

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• 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. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

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

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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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• merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

  P. C. Cast

  Goodbye, Saying Hello, Wiccan

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.304, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Book, Mean, Doors

  Silver RavenWolf (2012). “To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft”, p.18, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• 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

  Choices, Focus, Energy

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• 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

  Pages, Sentimental, Forget

  Song: The Music I Heard Once

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• 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

  Simple, Circles, White

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

  Bill Maher

  Museums, Space, Atlantis

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life And Love, Taken, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle, Library of Congress (1984). “Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983”, Washington : Library of Congress

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• But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

  Truman Capote

  Believe, Passion, Dark

  Truman Capote (1955). “Other voices, other rooms”, Modern Library

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• I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention. Instead I deal with it in my writings as a Mystery Tradition with long roots to the past. It has always been my position that we don't need an ancient tradition in order to be validated. We just happen to have one.

  Raven Grimassi

  Writing, Past, Views

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• The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Years, Mistress

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

  Bernie Taupin

  Book, Home, Satanism

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• The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

  John C. Bogle

  Mutual Fund, Built, Has Beens

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.440, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  People, Stuff, Hung

  "Christine O’Donnell In Oct. 1999: ‘I Dabbled Into Witchcraft’". thinkprogress.org. September 18, 2010.

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