Is Circle of Firelight WitchCraft?
That depends on your definition of WitchCraft. There are so many definitions for that term, many of them emotionally loaded, that we prefer to let the individual make that judgement for themselves. We are not the classical “witches” of the Spanish Inquisition, the image that has been passed on to modern times; no one was. That image was created to persecute anyone who believed something other than was believed by the religious sects responsible. The descriptors were such as would describe any older woman of the peasantry, thereby terrorizing the entire population with the image of their mothers and grandmothers being accused of witchcraft, a crime that required forfeiture of the “witch’s” property. This was often then split by the church, which acted as judge and jury, with the very person who brought the accusation. Over the many years of the Spanish Inquisition, most of the opposition to the power of the Church fell victim to the tortures of the Inquisition. Educated men and women of
