Witches facts

In 747 in england witchcraft was banned
The law was introduced in christian countries
Death penalty was introduced to whoever used thier magic to kill
The devil like angels cannot have sex but can become a male or female
witch trials began as early as 1245 in Toulouse

Seances

A seance is a type of ritual which is used to communicate with spirits. People tend to try and communicate via seance with relatives or friends from the past. It involves asking questions to the person's spirit outloud which will prompt or tempt some form of a communicative answer. For example "Is anybody there?" or "Can you hear me?".

It involves placing an object down on a hard flat surface, close enough to you and the spirit. The person will ask questions to the spirit and the object will move in one direction or another to answer/communicate a yes or no answer to the question.

Salem Witchcraft Trials  1692

.From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided (CONTINUED)--->>>

Witch Hunting

Witch hunting is a hunt for witches and evidence of witchcaft, and this involves moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching. People getting executed due to evidence of witchcraft was last seen in the 18^th century. Recent which hunts are said to be reported from Sub-Saharah Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. There were witch trials in the 15^th and 16^th century, then thewitch scare went into decline, before coming back in the 17^th century. People in these times used to find that people were witches by detecting their super natural abilities. Witchcaft usually went on in satanic ritual parties, where naked dancing and cannibalistic infanticite. You would also be convicted of witchcaft for not abiding by the ten commandments.

 

Spells

Spells and witchcraft are only scary and intimidating to us and society because we don’t know what they are. For example, when you search for ‘spells’ on Google, the Wikipedia page comes up with ‘Spells – paranormal’.

Islam Judaism and Christianity, label some magic activity as immoral or associated with evil. This means that some religions don’t agree with it. Spells would generally be distinguished from magic symbols, words, patterns, recipes, practices and other forms of magic that were not directly exercised by a collection of words. However, some spells were combinations or repetitions of words that were considered to have magic power, but which were not in sentences or verse.
A spell is a spoken or written formula that when used in an act of magick is intended to cause or influence a particular course of events.  Belief in and the use of spells are universal and have been an integral part of religious practices since ancient times.  Methods vary according to culture but all spell work is based on ritual. Spells can be beneficial or harmful and can be worked on people, animals, and nature.  Their purposes are limitless and include:  healing, love, money, success, fertility, longevity, and protection from disaster, ill fortune, and evil.  When directed against enemies, spells can be used to cause illness, destruction, loss of love, impotence, barrenness, failure and even death.  Spells can be cast to affect the self, or directed to affect another person.

A positive spell is often called a blessing, although such archaic terms as bewitchment and enchantment are still sometimes used.  Negative spells are generally known as hexes or curses.  A binding spell is one intended to prevent harm, avoid danger, or to stop someone from performing particular acts (e.g., halting a murder, preventing a rape, or even stopping the spread of gossip).

  To start, the goal of a spell is  stated and some Witches write it down.  The act of writing down the goal emphasizes the positive thinking techniques and helps to increase  the will power to achieve the goal.  Any preparations for the ritual are made such as lighting coloured candles or mixing herbs and oils. 

There are different regulations for spells, for example ‘constructive spells’ (spells which are for luck, fertility rites and protection spells) need to be performed when the moon is full and bright.

Seances

seance is an attempt to communicate with spirits.

In the religion of Spiritualism, it is generally a part of services to communicate with the dead.
Spiritualist churches or outdoors at Spiritualist camps and ordained minister or gifted contact medium will relate messages from the dead to the living.
In addition to communicating with the spirits of people who have a personal relationship to congregants, some Spiritual Churches also deal with spirits who may have a specific relationship to the medium or a historic relationship to the body of the church. An example of the latter is the spirit of Black Hawk, a Native American warrior of the Fox tribe who lived during the 19th century. Black Hawk was a spirit who was often contacted by the Spiritualist medium Leafy Anderson and he remains the central focus of special services in the African American Spiritual Churches that she founded
 

Witch-Torture

WITCH-TORTURE

 

Ducking Stool
The Medieval period of the Middle Ages was violent, and blood thirsty. In these barbarous times the cruel and pitiless torturers were induced to inflict the horrors of tortures, including the Ducking Stool, on prisoners by water. Torture methods, devices and instruments were used to inflict the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering. There were no laws or rules to protect the treatment of prisoners who faced torture, such as the Ducking Stool by water. Torture was seen as a totally legitimate means for justice to extract confessions, obtain the names of accomplices, and obtain testimonies or confessions.

Crimes which warranted the use of the Ducking Stool
The Ducking stool was a punishment strictly designed for women. The crimes which deemed such a punishment were prostitution and witchcraft. Scolds were also punished by this method. A scold was a term given to a gossip, shrew or bad tempered woman during the Middle Ages. A scold was defined as: "A troublesome and angry woman who by brawling and wrangling amongst her neighbours breaks the public peace, increases discord and becomes a public nuisance to the neighbourhood". The device was used in cases of witchcraft. Ducking was seen as a foolproof way to establish whether a suspect was a witch. The ducking stools were first used for this purpose but ducking was later inflicted without the chair. In this instance the victim's right thumb was bound to left toe. A rope was attached to her waist and the 'witch' was thrown into a river or deep pond. If the 'witch' floated it was deemed that she was in league with the devil, rejecting the 'baptismal water'. If the 'witch' drowned she was deemed innocent. This particular method of ducking was also inflicted on men accused of witchcraft.

A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.