Reveals the Mystery of the Witch

Posted by Unknown Friday, March 15, 2013 0 comments

Witchcraft as magic, in a variety of historical sources, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, have a sense of the use of supernatural or magical power, often aiming to hurt. And the witch is a witch aka practitioners. Belief in witchcraft and its practitioners are also sticking out strong in the history of Europe in the 14th century to 18, where the use of magic is considered as an act of rebellion against Christianity. Confidence in the use of sorcery produce witch-hunts (meaning witch hunt) are recorded in the history of several countries. Sub-Saharan Africa is still believe in the existence of witchcraft practices one of which in the Bantu culture.

Definition of Witchcraft

There is a special sense of the definition Witchcraft. Witch (Witch) as practitioners of Witchcraft, is different from a Sorcerer. A witch usually require assistive devices for practicing magic. So one can be a witch without having a natural talent, or in other words the magic can be learned. E.E. Evans-Pritchard is a pioneer research on the definition of Witchcraft and witch. According to him, a person may not realize he has to be a witch or a person can become a witch on charges surrounding communities. Eva POCs identified three types of witch in popular belief:


Neighborhood social witch or witch: witch who cursed a group of people with the basic thrust particular conflict.
Magical or Sorcerer witch: witch who has the power to heal, raise the luck person or group of people.
Supernatural or night witch: witch who can communicate or seeing visions of demons, both in vision or in a dream.

The practice of witchcraft is generally intended to influence a person's mind or body so that people will do things outside of consciousness. The concept is much recorded in many historical records, such as Egypt and Babylon, where magic is believed to have possessed the power of the mind and body to cause illness, bad luck, impotence, sudden death, and others. Magician who uses magic for good, such as curing diseases or ward off witchcraft, witches dubbed white or white witches. Necromancy is the practice of witchcraft summon the spirits of the dead in order to get instructions. Necromancy also has a sense of magic that can raise the dead with the aim of hurting people who are still alive or steal something.

 Witch-Hunt

Witch hunt, or a witch hunt, is a term used to describe the action of the search wizard or the use of evidence of the existence of witchcraft. Witch hunts often involve mass hysteria. History notes that there are some countries that legalized witch hunts to execution stage. The period of the most famous witch hunts in Europe and North America, in the early era moderninasai, approximately 1480 to 1700. The period between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War noted the occurrence of 40,000 to 100,000 executions. Ekseskusi last witch was recorded in Europe in the 18th century. In the Kingdom of Great Britain, there is a law on witch hunts and sentence imposed on persons convicted of using witchcraft. Legislation is recorded in Witchraft of Act of 1735. Other countries that have never had a law on witch hunt is German, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, and Papua New Gueinea. Legal legislation against witch hunting is still common in Saudi Arabia and Cameroon.


The Malleus Maleficarum is a record of a witch hunt, or can be said as a manual for how to deal with witches, which are widely used by Catholics and Protestants during the witch-hunt. The note describes how to identify someone as a witch, what makes a woman more likely to be witches than men, how to drop the witch in the trial, to how to punish a witch.

Trivia


Wicther is the nickname for the witches in Slavic mythology. One of the most famous is Geralt of Rivia, the main character of the game The Witcher.
Bayonetta, one of the main characters in Bayonetta, is an Umbra Witch who has the ability in art bullet.
In a series Castelvania, Belnades clan known as the witch who has the ability to control the elements.
In the anime Fairy Tail, also told there is a united group of wizards and create guilds, and Dragon Slayer is the owner of an ancient magic.

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