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Witch
* All Witches are creative, artistic, intuitive and spiritual people.
* Many Witches also love animals and keep pets, especially the traditional cats
  - do choose to wear black clothing or ritual robes
  - feel that wearing black attracts and holds more natural energy
  - witches also practise tantric sex magic
* Most witches have a spell table or altar which is used only for ritual and magickal work
  - teach themselves to work magick
  - use spells
* Some witches band together in covens.
* Some witches believe that one has to be born with the talent to become a witch
  - that the most powerful time to cast a spell is during orgasm
* Some witches have doors
* Some witches practice alone, while some seek out a coven to practice with others
  - in a coven, while others do it individually
* Some witches wear heavy makeup
  - jewelry
* TEND to focus more heavily upon certain mythic images than on others.
* also have a responsibility in how they present themselves to others
  - like to say that they are pagans
* are always female, and sorcerers always male, and both reproduce with humans
  - animists, believing that the spark of divinity exists in all creation
  - both males and female
  - diverse, and practice a variety of traditions
  - elderly people
  - essentially healers, whether they heal broken bones or broken spirits
  - everywhere, and can be dangerous
  - female, warlocks are male Witches are both male and female
  - fish
  - generally eclectic and draw on many aspects of paganism including shamanic practices
  - individualists
  - located in covens
  - made of wood
  - normal, everyday, people
  - now rare and weak, compared to ancient times
  - often intimates, relatives, friends
  - powerful people, but they do have their limits
  - sensitive, intuitive people who work with the cycles of the moon
  - ugly, have warts and wear pointed hats
  - used for burning
* believe in responsibility.
* believe in the sanctity of all life
  - triple goddess and are protectors of mother earth
  - they have existed throughout known history in many parts of the world
* burn up in the earth's atmosphere.
* can also breath under water.
* can be blonde, blue-eyed and beautiful
  - either men or women
  - good and evil
  - change themselves into cats
  - never do evil
  - summon glowing hula hoops to teleport people across vast distances
* celebrate eight major festivals or sabbats each year.
* certainly can hold their beliefs and practices in private.
* claim that they have a constitutional right to hold ceremonies.
* come from all racial, socio-economic and religious backgrounds
  - walks of life
  - every socio-economic background
  - in all sexual orientations and genders
* do have magic wands
  - magic and spells
* don t sacrifice animals, worship the devil or cast evil spells, they say.
* find joy, knowledge and enrichment in things that many people take for granted.
* fly fast, because they can only fly at night.
* follow the old Celtic agricultural calendar and the sabbats are seasonal celebrations.
* gather together during the different moon phases, and always when the moon is full.
* get attacks.
* give honor to the elements.
* have familiars, often in the form of a cat
  - features
  - follow features
  - group and same sex, sex during rituals
  - power that grows with wisdom
  - tolerance
* hold a deep reverence for nature and animals.
  - cell membranes
  - corpi
  - heads
  - material bodies
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - sections
* is an occultist
* live in attunement with the world's soul.
* loaded word in the world of religion.
* never die before their time, except in the real world.
* non gender-specific term and refers to both male and female practitioners.
* normally meet monthly during the full moon in local covens of thirteen people.
* often cause illnesses or spirit possession
  - curse and sometimes kill their victims
* only work with the powers of light and creation.
* perform spells, such as the one described above.
* practise rituals on indigenous women's sites.
* recognize the phases of the moon and the changing of the seasons.
* seek to control forces within themselves in order to live peaceful lives.
* sink in water.
* strive to respect the magickal arts, as well as the lives of others.
* tend to be dedicated environmentalists
  - highly individualistic
* treat patients and pray for rain or sun.
* try to hurt people.
* use a lot of symbolic magics for spells
  - ingredients such as herbs and chemicals to cas their spells
  - ritual to attune to natural rhythms and give thanks for the bounty of the Earth
* venerate the life forces in nature and seek to be in tune with natural cycles.
* walk in the night.
* wear clothing and robes of every color.
* work at aligning themselves with the free flow of the universe
  - with the natural flow of energy in the world
* worship false gods and goddesses.