What is the purpose of transformations in modern witchcraft?
Shape-shifting is a religious and cultural phenomenon that has existed in variety of forms throughout human history. The concept of shape-shifting being discussed here refers to the idea of people believing themselves to be transformed into another being, either mentally or physically. In the article titled “How to transform into goddesses and elephants: Exploring the potentiality of the dialogical self”, Prof. Gieser (2006) focuses on modern witchcraft known as Wiccan (Wicca) and tries to explain transformations that practitioners of Wiccan go through using the theory of dialogical self. Wiccans have a variety of gods and goddesses that form part of their cultural mythology that exist along with souls in the “otherworld”, that in itself is a “macrocosm” that gets mirrored by “microcosm” in our world. The “microcosm” doing the mirroring is a human being itself, thus each human is an embodiment of the whole world. Shape-shifting then is not about becoming someone else but awaking and sh
