That reminds me: whats Witchcraft? Are Wicca and Witchcraft the same thing?
The word witchcraft means a lot of different things to different people, probably even more so than the word paganism. The word Wicca means “witch” in Old English, and some Wiccans do call themselves Witches, but that doesn’t mean that they are the only people who do. As with paganism, you could say that Wicca is one type of witchcraft, but not the only type. When anthropologists use the term “witchcraft”, they are usually referring any sort of magic that happens outside the accepted religious structure of a society “practising magic without a licence”, you could say. When historians use the term, they are usually talking about the witchcraft persecutions of the late Middle Ages, where “witchcraft” was more of a social invention used to persecute people who didn’t fit in than an actual system of magic or religion. When storytellers and filmmakers use the word, they are usually talking about the image of the “witch” that we’re all familiar with from fairy tales. And there are other magi
