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- This is an extract from the October 1990 issue of FATE magazine.
- It deals with Witchcraft as it really is today.
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- Witchcraft Beliefs: For these look to books like Buckland's
- Complete Book of Witchcraft by Ray Buckland, or The Truth About
- Witchcraft Today by Scott Cunningham. Basically, Witches worship
- the same Creator (for there is only one) as all those who believe
- in a deity. This is the same Creator who is worshipped by Jews,
- Hindus, Moslems, and Cristians. As no one knows what the Deity
- looks like (or even if the Deity has looks), people have give the
- Creator a physical form. After all, it is much easier to worship
- something you can see or imagine other thaan an abstract concept.
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- The concept of male and female exists throughout life. Indeed,
- they create life. Most Witches perceive the Deity as being female
- and male: the Goddess and the God (although Dianic Witches only
- recognize the female aspect).
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- The God and Goddess: The Goddess is seen as Mother Nature and
- Mother Earth and is represented by the Moon. She is seen in the
- fertility of the plant, animal and human kingdoms. In most Wiccan
- traditions, her power is said to be at a peak in the
- "fertile half" of the year, from May until October
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- The God is seen in the woodlands, the Sun, grain, and the hunt.
- Most of the animals that prehistoric man hunted had horns, so He
- is usually depicted as the Horned One. His power is at a peak in
- the "dark half" of the year, from October to May.
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- That was istallment # 1, with several (at least 5) more to come.
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- Blessed Be,
- Red Death
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