Faced With Problems

Many problems facing witches are not only from the misconception of it from other people, but also from witches themselves.

Many people, especially rebellious teenagers, will come into Paganism, more commonly Wicca, and think that they must dress in black and they must make it very known that they can do all this different cool stuff. Many people actually look very lowly on being called “Wiccan” just because it has become the “religion” of rebellious teenagers.

Many teenagers who choose to begin practicing Wicca typically get into it because they here about it and choose that it is a way to “affirm” their independence. By teenagers, I don’t mean 17 year old’s. I mean the 13 year old girls that run around and feel the need to tell everyone that they are a witch and can read palms, fly on a broom stick, or whatever they come up with in their head.

This does not mean for you to run to any 13 year old witch you know and say that they are just rebelling. Just give them the time to see if they stick with it. Many people who are not going to stick with it will give it up after a few months and it will become very obvious. I’m just letting you know that anybody who is Pagan, or a witch, will constantly be learning. They will never know everything.

Many of these people that choose they need to tell everyone what they are cause the problems that many witches face. I saw on Yahoo! Answers a couple days ago a woman had posted “I am a Witch, I can answer your questions and give you spells for anything”. I knew right away that this is a person that also is a cause for the misconceptions about witches. She posted this and I had to tell her that she is one reason people understand wrongly. Saying that she knows a spell for everything is not good because too many people think bad when you say that you know a spell.

Before you tell people you can do all this cool stuff, you need to make it known that you are not turning people into toads or cooking up some weird concoction that involves eye of a toad and the leg of a cat. That’s just wrong to do.

I hope that Pagans and Wiccans out there wills start helping to change the views faced upon us, whether it be Internet or face-to-face. Remember, it can still be dangerous to us because many people may believe in harming witches.

I did not write this to put people down, but Wicca and Witchcraft and Paganism is not something you choose to do just because you want to rebel or because you want to try something new. It is a religion. If you want to try it, then read about it and do a little, don’t pretend you know about everything there is and try to show up the Elders. You won’t be too happy with their response. Practicing takes more practice than you will believe it takes unless you are actually practicing it.

I’ll be back with more later. Blessed Be