This was dangerous talk—in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.

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

On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists,lawyers, poets, plumbers,and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds cometogether to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Danceof Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

[However, noting that the women thus accused of witchcraft] belonged to the same ethnic and national groups that denounced them and that then laid claim to their land and possessions, ... the Inquisition was carried out not against women but against Jews.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.