Witchcraft Glossary give discussions to myth and
ritual,alchemistry and other relatives,witchcraft and
witchery!Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological,
religious and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of
supernatural or magical powers. Historically, it was widely
believed that witchcraft involved the use of these powers to
inflict harm upon members of a community or their property.
Since the mid 20th century, the term witchcraft has sometimes
been used to distinguish between bad witchcraft and good
witchcraft, with the latter often involving healing. The concept
of witchcraft as harmful is normally treated as a cultural
ideology, a means of explaining human misfortune by blaming it
either on a supernatural entity or a known person in the
community. A witch (from Old English wicce f. / wicca m.) is a
practitioner of witchcraft. The "witch-cult hypothesis", a
controversial theory that European witchcraft was a suppressed
pagan religion, was popular in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Since