| What comes to ones mind when you think of spell | | | | of energy network those gifted with some ability's |
| casting and potion brewing? Something maybe from | | | | are able to peek into the future where others |
| Harry Potter or an old woman on a broom? The film | | | | perform spells and rituals to manipulate magical |
| industry has certainly helped shape our views and | | | | substance or energy to get a desired effect. |
| stereo types of witchcraft that is for sure. | | | | There are new many people that criticize these new |
| Although it may be different in reality there are some | | | | age remedies, and don't wish to follow the spiritual |
| factual references that have been made. | | | | path. |
| But where did it come from? The knowledge that | | | | There are many books on the subject of occultism |
| was practised in western civilization, originally came | | | | and witchcraft and new research is being done all the |
| though Roman influences which in turn took them | | | | time, to explain something that science is only |
| from Greek culture. | | | | starting to understand. |
| The Greeks themselves too this information from | | | | In the Wicca religion these spells and rituals are kept |
| the Egyptians who in tern borrowed most of it from | | | | in a book called the book of shadows which are |
| ancient Babylonia, a path that stretches back over | | | | unique to each coven usually hand written in code |
| 5000 years. | | | | and passed down from generation to generation. |
| Not to say that their have not been improvements | | | | It is not a centralised religion and has not head office, |
| or refinements to the knowledge between this time | | | | as such but more independently run groups of people. |
| and now. | | | | There are many free spells and potions that can be |
| Pagans, Wiccans and Occultism believe that | | | | found online and you don't have to be a wiccan to |
| everything on the earth is connected though a kind | | | | use them. |