Sone traditional witches have incorporated christian influences and portions of the Bible. I come from a tradition free from those influences, because of the harm Christianity has done and because in our villagers who encountered us used to spit on the ground when they saw us. We never went to church, though my mom sometimes went on Christmas Eve or when the Mattheus Passion was preformed with the Dutch opera singer Marco Bakker.
My father, not in any way a witch, but a socialist pur sang, just hated christianity , because of his own past with his father and stepmother. I never set foot in a church before 1985, when I was lured into the Pentecostal church and stayed there until 2015 and left with aversion and hatred because of their attitude against LGBTQIAPQ people and other religions.
Because of my past I swore to remove all remnants of christiany and the bible and never incorporate any influences into my practice. I researched on Wicca also and the Cult of Tubal-Kain and the influence of christianiy in Traditional witchcraft and Folk Pratices and found to many biblical influences and couldn’t understand why this religion still had so much of an impact, for me it’s a ninefold NO.
I went back to my roots, for my any name of the Jewish and christian god has any significance to me, no charm, blessing or curse with these abominable names of the biblical god has any relationship with my practice. It took me years of rituals to get rid of those remnants, so for me any circle, coven of grove that has some relation with the bible would ever fit in my life.
A few years i was with the Satanic Temple, but they are very much against the supernatural, and it was just too much of the same and often just make belief fakeism for me
Am I a black witch? There ain’t nothing like that in traditional witchcraft, though there are benevolent and malevolent witches, but nothing like white witch Wicca and the ‘Wiccan Rede’. It’s hard to explain, because I don’t share my practice, only to the seekers who are already familiar with the Craft. I do respect Wiccans, though, but it’s not my path.
I hold my practice free of the evil bible and any christian influence and that has healed a lot of wounds that were inflicted upon me in 30 years of Pentecostal influences. I studied church history and the influence the Maleus Maleficarum had, which even today influences the ‘Satanic Panic’ and ‘Witch Panic’ caused by fundamentalistic religions.
For a life without ‘biblical influences’ is a great life.
NE of the most evil and controversial books ever written, by Heinrich Kramer 1) (or: Henricus Institoris) was a book that set off the official persecution of so-called “witches”. There were approximately 110,000 witch trials and about 60,000 “witches” killed 2). Heinrich Kramer was surely women hater pur sang and he presumed that every women, who wasn’t submitted to men, didn’t conform to church doctrine, had knowledge and some sort power beyond what was permitted (that is doing chores, cooking and caring for children), was a witch. What we know is that the majority of women, that were persecuted, were just christian women, seldom were they witches, because, surely after christianity took full control over every aspect of the lives and thoughts of individuals, we kept in the shadows, with the secrecy that was, and still is, an essential part of Traditional Witchcraft.
SUGGEST that every witch, feminist and those who are interested in researching (traditional) witchcraft, should read the Maleus Malificarum, just for the sake of knowing why, almost every book and movie, is still influenced by this evil book. Movies like ‘the last witch-hunter’ 3) Hans und Gretl 4) still represent the witch-image that the Maleus Malificarum portrayed of witches and women in general. Also Sabrina the Teenage Witch 5) had elements of the caricature of the witch that was portrayed in the Maleus Malificarum.
ROM the beginning of christianity priests and church leaders were obsessed with eradicating everything they called ‘occult’ and especially witchcraft. The zealous woman-hating obsessed Heinrich Kramer or his ‘holy name’ Henricus Institorius produced his Maleus Malificarum of ‘hammer of the witches’ which portrayed women as evil, especially those women who practiced natural healing, functioned as midwives or any woman with knowledge who would not conform to church doctrine. The Dark Ages were the time of the evil reign of the church, who killed anyone who would not convert to christianity.
Morghain’s Traditional Witchcraft 