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What is a witch?
Is a witch something that you are, or something that you become?
Is witchhood from within or from without?
Can anyone be (or become) a witch, or only certain people?
Do you have to undergo initiation to be a witch?
Can you stop being a witch?
From whence does witchhood derive?
Is witchcraft a religion?
If not, does the Craft have religious implications?
Are witchcraft and Wicca identical?
Why are some people witches and some not?
Well, it's easy, really: we were born this way.
He sired us himself.
Yes, you are as you are because he overshadowed your father at your very begetting.
Recently a thirteen-year-old girl wrote me. She told me she’d just been to Salem, MA, and a card reader there told her she was a Witch. The girl wanted me to tell her if she really was a Witch.
This pissed me off. Not at the girl, who was understandably confused, but at the irresponsible, thoughtless card reader who would tell a thirteen-year-old girl such a thing and send her on her merry way, apparently without concerns about the possible consequences for her young client, which could (and apparently did) range from confusion to fear to freaking out.
(And let’s not forget, folks, that one of the few things most Witches appear to agree on is that we don’t proselytize. This was dangerously close to that.)
Anyway, the boneheaded card reader did inadvertently bring up a question that I get regularly in one form or another, mostly from teens, but also from older folks:
How do I know if I’m a Witch?
