14 Chapter One
Buckland, The Truth About Witchcraft Today by Scott Cunningham, Witchcraft Today by Gerald Gardner, and What Witches Do and Eight Sabbats for Witches by Stewart Farrar are all famous books about Wicca, but through their titles they implied that they spoke for all of Witchcraft. The content inside these books also supports the idea that Wicca and Witchcraft are synonymous, backing up the misleading titles and furthering the confusion between the two practices. The aggressive campaign to legitimize Wicca and Witchcraft as nonthreatening with a unified modus operandi of harming none swayed many non-Pagans to believe that all Witches subscribed to the same code of ethics. Interestingly, it also convinced most Pagans of the same myth, including myself. The truth is that there are and always have been plenty of Witches out there who will hex you to the Summerlands and back and not think twice about it. If you push your thumb and forefinger tightly together, you would not create a small enough margin to represent the presence of Wicca in the total spectrum of Witchcraft throughout human existence. Relative to most Witchcraft practice, Wicca just got here! Plenty of hexes and curses have gone on before—and since— Wicca arrived on the metaphysical scene.
Other Popular Theological Concepts If the preponderance of Witches throughout history do not follow the rules of “harm none” or embrace concepts such as the Laws of Attraction, the threefold law, or even the power of karma, do any of those theories even belong in a conversation about psychic attack? I believe they do, to some degree. Even though historical Witches likely did not have knowledge of ideas such as these, when we incorporate new concepts into our
