130 Witchcraft Quotes

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Famous Witchcraft Quotes

Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life. — Christopher Penczak

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. — Aleister Crowley

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will. — Dion Fortune

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft. - Toussaint Louverture

Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft. — Toussaint Louverture

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. — Neil Gaiman

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. — Starhawk

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy. — Laurie Cabot

I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being. — Starhawk

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life. — Silver RavenWolf

Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten. — Scott Cunningham

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.' — Gerald Gardner

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! - William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. — William Shakespeare

Short Witchcraft Quotes

  • The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft. — John C. Bogle
  • The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life. — Margot Adler
  • A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster. — Jeremy Clarkson
  • In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth. — Starhawk
  • Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned. — Leigh Brackett
  • If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. — Andre Malraux
  • You have witchcraft in your lips — William Shakespeare
  • You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs. — Peter S. Beagle
  • Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. — Bernie Taupin
  • Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both! — William Shakespeare

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Witches Quotes

And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it. — Abigail Williams

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. — Sandra Cisneros

Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno

We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain

The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein

Everyone carries around his own witches. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. - Desi Arnaz

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. — Desi Arnaz

And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks. — J. K. Rowling

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis

Sorcery Quotes

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. — Hakim Bey

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate — Tom Robbins

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. — Luis Barragan

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. — Frank Barron

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Leo Tolstoy

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. — Carlos Castaneda

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem. — Tom Robbins

Black Magic Quotes

I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it. — Aleister Crowley

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out. — Michaela Angela Davis

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. — William S. Burroughs

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India. — Narendra Modi

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. — Johnny Mercer

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. — Conrad Hall

Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church. — Tony Andruzzi

And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos — Jim Butcher

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do. — J. K. Rowling

Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction) — Kim Harrison

Witch Doctors Quotes

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. — Mike Mason

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. — Mordecai Richler

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. — Albert Schweitzer

Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. — Eduardo Paolozzi

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. — Geraldine Ferraro

Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. — Matthew Parris

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine. — Peter Schiff

... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have. — C. Wagner

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line. — Frank Sinatra

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe

Witch Hunt Quotes

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. — Mae West

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. — Michael Scott

It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch. — Jon Stewart

Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet? — Calvin Cheng

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil. — Arthur Miller

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema. — Jerry Pournelle

Wizard Quotes

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. — Judy Garland

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. — Gabe Newell

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? - Judy Garland

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? — Judy Garland

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me — Eva Cassidy

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J. K. Rowling

Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? — L. Frank Baum

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — L. Frank Baum

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? — Yip Harburg

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. - Harold Arlen

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. — Harold Arlen

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. — L. Frank Baum

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More Witchcraft Quotes

Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you. — Gerald Gardner

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. — Jacob Bernoulli

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. — Thomas Jefferson

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing. — Starhawk

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales. — Charles de Lint

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect — Terry Pratchett

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf. — Will Rogers

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs. — Amy Sedaris

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. — Yoko Ono

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection. — Starhawk

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again — P. C. Cast

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. — Henri Matisse

Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it. — Phyllis Diller

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. — Rachel Carson

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. — Sam Ervin

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard. — John August

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. — Terry Pratchett

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. — Emily Dickinson

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism. — Al Yankovic

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible. — John Wesley

Real art must always involve some witchcraft. — Isak Dinesen

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. — Terry Pratchett

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really. — Bill Mollison

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something — Truman Capote

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