Kim's abnormal life

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ok know that I am not encouraging witchcraft or anything I am just doing this for my story so please no flames or anything

Kim's POV

I wake up with the 3 books from last night laying on my bed, that brings questions fresh into my mind, why were the books so....hidden? Why were they there? Why did my grandma have them? UGH headache! I pick them up, I know your picturing these 3 huge, dark, thick books but their not. The book of shadows id dark and thick but is kinda small and the others are....average? anyway I stuff them all into my bag besides the wiccan book, it seems friendlier, you know the aura and stuff.

I open the book and I'm met with a bunch of symbols, a five-point star and such, aren't these satanistic? I turn the page and see an index

1) explanation of wicca and witchcraft

2) wiccan rules

3) beginner spells

4) protection spells

5) aura

6) healing spells

7) luck spells

I turned over to chapter 1 and see this looooooonnnnggggg paragraph but sigh, thank goodness today is Saturday and start reading "Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it. It is divided into various lineages anddenominations, referred to as traditions, each with its own organisational structure and level of centralisation. Due to its decentralized nature, there is some disagreement over what actually constitutes Wicca. Some traditions, collectively referred to as British Traditional Wicca, strictly follow the initiatory lineage of Gardner and consider the term Wicca to apply only to such lineaged traditions, while other eclectic traditions do not.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a greater pantheistic godhead. However, beliefs range from hardpolytheism to even monotheism. Wiccan celebration follows approximately eight seasonally based festivals known asSabbats. An unattributed statement known as the Wiccan Rede is the traditional basis of Wiccan morality. Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s. Prior to that, the term Witchcraft had been more widely used. Whilst being based upon the Old English word wicca, a masculine term for sorcerers, the actual individual who coined the capitalised term Wicca is unknown, though it has been speculated that it was Charles Cardell, who certainly used the term Wiccen during the 1950s.

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".[2] Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca are often collectively termedBritish Traditional Wicca, and many of their practitioners consider the term Wicca to apply only to these lineaged traditions. Others do not use the word Wicca at all, instead preferring to be referred to only as Witchcraft, while others believe that all modern witchcraft traditions can be considered Wiccan." hmmmm interesting "Many Wiccans practice magic, an invisible, subtle and manipulative force, exercised through the practice of witchcraft or sorcery. Many Wiccans agree with the definition of magic offered by ceremonial magicians,[36] such as Aleister Crowley, who declared that magic was "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will", while another prominent ceremonial magician, MacGregor Mathers stated that it was "the science of the control of the secret forces of nature".[36]Many Wiccans believe magic to be a law of nature, as yet misunderstood or disregarded by contemporary science,[36] and as such they do not view it as beingsupernatural, but a part of what Leo Martello calls the "super powers that reside in the natural".[37] Some Wiccans believe that magic is simply making full use of the five senses in order to achieve surprising results,[37] whilst other Wiccans do not claim to know how magic works, merely believing that it does because they have observed it to be so.[38] Some spell it "magick", a variation coined by the influential occultist Aleister Crowley, though this spelling is more commonly associated with Crowley's religion of Thelema than with Wicca.