Do Witches exist?

A painting condemning witchcraft and traditional magic in Rila Monastery, Bulgaria

Historically, witchcraft is the use of various types of magical or mystical powers to harm people or to grab their property. It is also known as witch. In many cultures witchcraft were in league with Devil. Witchcraft is commonly characterized by its applying of magic such as spell, cursing or other black magic that could harm people. 
Witchcraft in essence can be roughly defined as the power of a person in which a force or matter is used to harm or influence nature through supernatural means. It has been believed in by most known cultures. 
There have different legend about the witch in different culture. In mid-20^th centuries, people believed those “bad” and “good” witches were somehow distinguished, the later often involved in healing.

How it works?

Witchcraft symbol

A spell is an act of powerful and focus on the desire that meets all the emotional and mental energies combined with prayers, spells and the ritual steps that directed to achieve some positive or negative goals. 
A spell may be in the form of a prayer, writing, speech, action, drawing or sketching. Magic or spell is a creative and transformative performance. It involves intense, powerful and the concentration over thoughts, intentions, emotions and incarnating them into reality. 
They had many symbols to represent the different spells.

The Spell book

A witch takes a huge responsibility upon herself when they were using the spell. As a Witch, she should know the basic credendum of witchcraft, which is what they do and the wrong or failure spells would send back threefold to them. 
A constant meditation, practice, worship and performance of rituals penetrate the psyche of the witch with that magical spell that is reflected through their persona, physiognomy, especially their eyes and voice. 
There were wise women in ancient cultures and there are many even now who are honored and respected for their service to the community through spell casting, healing, mentoring and providing succor to the suffering.

Novices in spell casting need guidances, both verbal and written, in performing the rituals. Once they have gained sufficient experience and success, they can devise their own system.

Writer’s review

In fairy tales, there were stories about witchcraft. For example, Snow White, the evil queen was envy with the pretty princess so she made a poison apple. And Sleeping Beauty was cursed by the witch when the witch was not being invited for the princess birthday party.

Nowadays, there are a lot of  TV dramas and novels that uses the witch or supernatural as a theme such as The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Vision, Supernatural and so on. These are the series of supernatural dramas and novels that involves the witches stories, but are they really exist? If they were existed then how they would extinct since they had an extraordinary power? 

Written by Leow Bee Lian