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Comet
I like that idea alot. So our under developed powers could be what we look at now as power? That could make sense because the Vatican used to call Gallelayo a maniac and that he was making up lies. They even burned his book staing that the earth was round
ginny_1991
Yes, magic could be considered the development of the brain in other areas such as telepathy, piroquinesis, and stuff like that. biggrin.gif Wouldnt it be awsome to comunicate with the mind? or to move stuff just by thinking about it?.. It would be great!! biggrin.gif
Comet
Having X-Ray vision would be cool too. Just imagine, stand next to the girls locker room wub.gif
imtherealluna*
yeah, i think that they could exist, because magic can really be out there.
FFFanatic06
Well why not? Absence of evidence does not equal the non-existence of evidence. Frankly, I don't care either way but, since I like the sound of my own voice, I'll jump in. Humans are about as intelligent as that brick I'm staring at. Dummer really, the brick doesn't go to war with that other brick because it feels threaten. Nor does that other brick do anything. True they can't think but whatever. Just because you don't see/hear about something doesn't mean it isn't happening. But the again its not smart to do/say something without evidence either. The solution? Go out explore and find out for your self. The truth is out there!
ginny_1991
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Having X-Ray vision would be cool too. Just imagine, stand next to the girls locker room wub.gif


Umm.. ok.. I wont comment on the subject bacuase I am absolutely sure you know my thoughts on the matter..
But I would love to be a piroquinetic (Im sorry if that is not the way its spelled).. I wouls also love to communicat ewith the mind.. You couldnt get kicked out of class for that.. lol!! tongue.gif biggrin.gif
Misto
I'll put it this way:
I was raised in the belief that behind nearly every phenomenon there is a logical answer, even if it's not so clear by nowadays knowledge and that you shouldn't believe in things unless you can proof them.
So thanks to mathematical education and interest in physics and economics rather than in psychology or astrology i have to say: defintately no witches or wizards, just a few weirdos who claim to be ones due to overuse of various drugs
speekingtree
I am absolutly certain that Witches and Wizards do exsist, certainly. Do they practise magic in the same way as in Harry's world, No. There are several groups that practise Magic. Mainly Wiccan and Pagan. A lot of it could be compared to visualisation and meditation.
The witchcraft you encounter in the world of films, is fantasy..... however I know several people locally that are either Pagan or Wiccan, and they are very nice, kind and normal people, no prancing about naked in the moonlight or sacrificing virgins!
Crow Isabella Laoghare
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I answered the last one. Yes they do exist. I belive in them and ghosts, regarding I've seen them before. I sometimes yell ouch when it;s not me, but the person next to me getting hurt. Example: sister kicks brother. I yell ouch and grab my leg when I was clear accross the room. I t hurt, by it wasn't me getting kicked. This kind of thing happens to me all the time.
Maria ph34r.gif
Werewolf of Londen
I superduper think there real , why , i want to think they are because they shoud if there not ( which I bet they are real ). I woud love to be a witch because I would be able to just wave my wand and my homework will be done and people who make me mad bye bye. wink.gif
legorii
This is a very interesting topic, and yes, i do believe that somehow, somewhere witches and wizards exist. I dont really know how, but i really wish that i would meet or even become one.
witchmom
Well...well...I took some time reading answers...
I am an hereditary pagan witch, and I'm raising my own children as pagan witches, and I can say that some details in HP stories seem to be very close to those of my personal path, but the same elements are very common in European folk tales.
Sure, real witches don't fly, and aren't always stirring strange things in a boiling caudron, and they are not evil (only those who choose it, as a personal choice, but I don't know a single evil witch). This is the difference between reality and fantasy...The matter is, that sometimes people don't realize there are so many witches around, and think we're only fantasy characters. People often react very strangely to witchy behaviour, so keeping it a secret is something witches are used to.
It's not waving wands that makes us reach our goals, but hard work, even when you use magick. That's pretty clear even in JKR's books. wink.gif

Witchmom )O(
Arya
Surely if I'm a witch I don't say it to the first person who I meet tongue.gif

However I have a theory: nobody can say " witches don't exist" or " witches exist"... I mean nobody can say it certainly. So why wouldn't they exist?
Obviously this speech worths for all folklor like elves, dragons , etc... wink.gif
witchmom
Inquisition times have left a horrible legacy on the word "witch", that comes from the old english "wicce", wise. That's why almost the 90% of witches today is scared about telling people who they really are. Muggles can be really violent sometimes because they fear what they don't understand.
The second reason may be that muggles usually start to ask witches to make spells and potions to help them, just to take the shorter way instead of solving their problems on their own. Witches can help, of course, if requested, but as I have already written, behind every magic act there's a accurate preparation, hard work, hard study.

But, of course, there are places and situations in which a witch can be herself. Surely I don't recommend to tell it at work...
Anyway it's up to every single witch or wizard to do their outing. Proof is, that many of them have muggle friends and marry muggle people.

Witchmom )O(
Greger
The World got it's misteries and one of them is existence of whiches and wizards. I'm not sure whether thay have their very own ministry, school system or stuff like that but they surely live amongst us, Muggles (I haven't noticed any magical skills that I may possess yet). But I have a proof no-one can question. The Eastern Europe's been ruled by Voldemort's followers for last 50-60 years laugh.gif.
amanda1212
I think it is a very good possibility. Ive sene shows and such on it and it seems like something that is possible. I am pretty sure that if there is its is nothing like harry potter. But ' regular ' people living among us... you never know
wizkid_12
im sorry to say that i don't think wizards and witches exist...there's just no way they could possibly exist and no non-magical people have found out yet? magic is just not something that can possibly exist in the real world even though i wish it did.
Harry_Ginny777
yes i think witches and wazards exist, like witchcraft and stuff like that i don't know about wands and flying brooms but i think the whole witchcraft stuff works because well i was into the whole Pentagrams and all fo the wicca signs and things like that. i thought it was pretty neat but i bet any money that there are real people casting spells and potions
luckyfish
I honestly do think that wicthes and wizards do exist, but like Harry_Ginny777 said, they are not like the ones in harry potter that have wands or brooms...
I also think that they have their own spells and stuff like that, even with the whole Pentagram things and those star thingys...But I would never do stuff like that though wink.gif
Demented Dementor
My family is foreign and comes from a country wher people practice black magic, even turn themselves into animals. They put curses on people but they really hide, it is common but taboo, , it really is ugly, you don't have to believe me and I don't expect you to, but I am telling you it is true.
etphonehome
Not in the same context as the HP books though...I'm more inclined to refer back to witchmom for my beliefs. She exists therefore witches exists..end of story!
Fall_out_Girl
well yeah i hope they do! but i bet not in like Harry Potter, probably no brooms and wands. probably incantations, i dont know. but it is certainly possible.
Albus Dumbledore
Well noone fore sure can say that they DONT exist, for if it were like the way JKR writes it... then all those with the knowldedge would be obliviated(memory modified)... we would never know if yesterday we witnessed a death eater blow apart a street and kill 12 muggles for we wouldnt remember it. Everything is so well guarded that we would never know... i will be honest, when I was 11 years old I really wanted that letter to come... but ti didnt... but that doesnt disprove the wizarding world...there is absolutely nothing that can disprove the wizarding world.. except for religion and that is just a belief and is very circumstantial.
witchmom
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Not in the same context as the HP books though...I'm more inclined to refer back to witchmom for my beliefs. She exists therefore witches exists..end of story!


Thank you Etphonehome! Anyway, this matter is a bit complicated by the fact that being a witch is something that involves your relationship with Nature, the environment, your body, your faith. I won't get tired of repeating that witchcraft is a path of hard work and study and involves wands and brooms, which anyway are mere symbols, because WE are the tools of the Craft.

The witch has been adored and hated from the beginning of History. In most recent times, books and movies have depicted her in every possible wy, but usually insisting on her connection to evil forces. One of the most famous movies on underage witchcraft, "The Craft", has mixed up reality and fiction, frightening people and attracting to witchcraft especially those who wanted to be "cool". I hate this kind of movies, because they give just a few correct informations among tons of lies and fictional details.

Anyway, as a witch, I find a lot of things in HP books that could be traced back to real witchcraft's things. I am sure that JKR has studied a lot about witches before writing her books.

Witchmom )O(
spirallabyrinth
I still find myself amazed at how misinformed so many people are about witches. I guess with all the movies and media out there about witches it is hard for one who is not an initiate in the old ways or a religious scholar to distinguish fact from fiction. It would be nice to really be able to jump on a broom and fly, but I usually just use mine to prepare ritual space for a little astral flying.

It is good that there are a few real witches on here to help educate folks and help them to discern the difference between fantasy and reality. Even though the veil between the two sometimes opens and they can blend together.

Bright Blessings!
Emmi Weasley
I said, "Yeah! I've seen one before!"

Ok, ok. Its not a Harry Potter type witch/wizard. But there are religions out there (Wiccan and Paganism) that deal with spells and incantations. Although theirs limitations and things...but there are real religions that are basis on Witch and Wizard. I happen to be a practicing Wiccan, 7 years+ running. So, if anyone has any questions....^-^
witchmom
It's funny how in Sicily for example there are a lot of witches -especially the oldest ones- who practice magic but are catholic. Wicca for example is the new name for a very very ancient religion which the relatively new religions like christianism -in every shade of it- didn't manage to substitute totally. Wicca had a good response in Italy, but not so much in the South, where Paganism and Natural Magic are still very linked to the genetic roots of people -especially that kind of hearth or green witchcraft-, maybe as it happens in English countryside (and that's why my Sisters and me don't define us as Wiccans but as pagan witches).

I see these seventy-eighty year-old witches going to pray Mary because for them the Mother, the Goddess, is much more important than God. That's how they feel and they're perfectly IN the dominant religion, while they go on with healing, spells, herbs.
That's one of the reasons why I can't believe that there are still divisions between religions. Why can't people live in peace?

Just some considerations....


Witchmom )O(
Amyrat151
I've had friends who are Wiccans, I even had one try and describe the cycle of the seasons, I was more than a little lost, I was quite confused. So, oh course wicths are real, and boy witchs smile.gif.
I'm actaully Catholic, I've been Confirmed and I go to church every Sunday. But diversity of religons doesn't bother me in the slightest, just because this is the religon for doesn't mean it's the best for everyone. I also read palms, which I've been told I'm very good at.
I think that in Harry Potter JK made it so that their was no religon, monotheoistic or pagan, there's just spirituality, which is great, because it doesn't excluded audiences like I feel Narina does. JK belongs to the church of Scotland, so she's Christian.
WonWonandHermy
we wouldn't know..... They don't want muggles to know about them remember? But I 100% believe that there are witches and wizards everywhere we just think it is to crazy so we don't even bother to look! huh.gif I want to learn magic too! So I am gonna find a witch or wizard even if it is the last thing I do! biggrin.gif tongue.gif
madmarauder123
Hi! I'm new here. I think it's very likely there are withches and wizards. They had a huge time period devoted to hunting them down, for petes sake! I think that either a) they exisist but are afraid to reveal them selves. The last time they did that, we killed innocent people out of fear. While we are more civilized, they could still be very afraid. Now, if you excuse me, I must see a theropist. Toodles!
Cassiopeia
I don't believe that magic and and wizardry exist. Magic is something people historically used to explain things they didn't understand, and that process continues today. In some ways, religion and magic are similar, as they can both be considered to fall under the umbrella of cultural constructs. We like to have things wrapped up in a neat little box whenever possible and it unsettles or frightens us to lack understanding of the world around us, so we have these supernatural explanations about things because that feels better than simply not knowing the why or how behind something. For example, ancient civilizations thought an eclipse was caused by angry gods, and colonials thought birth defects in babies or livestock were caused by a witch having put a curse on the pregnant woman or animal. Today we have technology that they lacked back in those times to explain many of the mysteries of life, and in another hundred or thousand years they'll have figured out even more of what was once thought unexplainable or mystical.

Years ago whilst working on a grad study on LSD, I read a book about a really fascinating theory regarding the colonial witch hunts. I'll try to get it right without screwing up the details, but I reccommend utilizing your own Google-fu to learn more if you're interested. The conditions were right in the years that the Salem witch trials were going on for a certain kind of fungus to grow on the grain the colonists would have been growing and storing for their food supply. The consumption of grain tainted with this fungus would cause a condition called ergotism, which has symptoms consistent with LSD use, i.e. hallucinations, euphoria, seizures and psychosis. The theory is that basically they were all having a really bad acid trip and got carried away trying to rid themselves of the effects. Ergotism was officially identified in the mid 1800s, but for many years it was seen as a punishment from God rather than the results of dampness permeating the grain supply leading to fungus-tainted bread. It took a while for the cause and effect of the whole thing to become clear to the scientists of the day.

As for Christmas in HP, I discussed it with some British friends once. They said that for them Christmas is basically a secular holiday, as is Easter, and people often follow the traditions without putting any thought into the religious aspects of the celebrations. Apparently their school holidays were never switched over to the more politically correct designations of "winter break" and "spring break" as is now the norm for so many of us. We're all about being PC here in the states, and to a lesser extent in Canada. Europe never got the memo, so they still use terms and designations that have fallen by the wayside on the other side of the pond. wink.gif Considering all that, the mentions of Christmas and Easter in the otherwise religion-free world of HP are less odd.

I do have to ask, in all seriousness: what is "piroquinetic"? I can't figure out what you mean.
witchmom
Hi there!!!
The theory of magic vs science is slowly fading away thanks to the most recent scientific studies. This is going to be a long, long post...sorry!!!!!

The common sense states that there are things accepted as "real" and other as "false". Science is a "real" thing, while magic is a "false" one.
I won't involve the religious issues now, because it's not the right place. I'll talk about magic and science only. I'd like to quote in English but unfortunately I don't have the original editions of some books I have, so I'll resume them as good as I can.

Witches have always been seen by the common eye as strange, weird, mostly evil beings. This is an heredity from the Inquisition times, which ruled the old and the new world for "just" 700 years. Their potions, their fuming cauldrons, their herbs and spells seem to have been frightening people during the centuries. This is not true, actually.
Witches have been the first healers, and in most recent centuries have been kicked out of the official medicine which robbed them of all the natural remedies they had experimented throughout the centuries.
Witchcraft and women's history go side by side. Witchcraft history is, indeed, a history of women. Witches have been linked with sin and damnation because, being so close to Nature, they didn't have any revulsion towards the body as many monotheistic religions taught. The result was that witches were feared by women (as maneaters) and by men too, because they felt their power of FREE women. A free woman was dangerous both on a social and religious level. Remember that many women, still today, don't have rights.
Witches have been the first scientists because they used the empiricist methods in approaching Nature, while the "official", graduated doctors used spells written on the patients for example!!

During the centuries, science and natural laws have been used to "explain" the Universe...even if they can't still explain how for example the brain cells work in forming images, colors...how can a physical support create non-physical things, like the thoughts and dreams? this is the big challenge of computer science for example...

Today, science is confirming what shamans and witches know by thousands years: that there's a hidden dimension of reality - called quantic level- and there are laws governing it. Universe is an immense energy field in which every single thing is connected to all the others. Reality we perceive with our senses is composed by different objects, but they are connected on the subatomic level of small particles. All the objects are made of pure energy, as witches have always said! There's an interesting theory called Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox: the things which are separated on a physical level, work in unison, like two fotons of light, even on a huge distance, communicating in fractions of seconds.
The new laws of quantum physics confirm the witches' spiritual-magic statement by which all the reality's objects are connected.
Furthermore, science is confirming that, as witches and shamans have always said, the human mind is able to influence events. Witches' and shamanic tecniques alter conscience, allowing to "see" the secret structure of things, the hidden order on a subatomic level.

Oh! The problem of the ergotism has showed up in Europe first, in the Middle Ages.

Christmas...I have already said something about Christmas-Yule and Easter-Eostre and I'm quoting it here. Feel free to search on your own of course...and there's another thread about "Do witches and wizards have religion?".
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Just to provide some informations, here are some pagan and christian festivities, to show how religions are very close on the same territory...When christian belief started to spread across europe, the pagan peasants resisted in giving up their beliefs, so christianity resulted in being a mix-up of various religious habits, previously inherited from persians, egyptians, etc..

YULE, winter solstice = Christmas
IMBOLC = Candlemas
OSTARA, spring equinox = Easter
(BELTANE = May Day)
SAMHAIN/Halloween = All saints'

Yule is the pagan festivity for Christmas, the winter solstice. The birthday of Christ was at first celebrated on Epiphany day (jan.6). Then, to cancel successfully the pagan celebration of Mithra's birthday (Sol Invictus=victorious sun), the birthday of Christ was set on dec.25. Mithra was a Sun God. It happens that even Krishna is born the 25th of december and in ancient Egypt Ra, the Sun god, was celebrated the same day. All during the solstice days, from 22 to 25.
Easter comes from the name of the Goddess Eostre. The egg is one of the symbols of rebirth, in many religions.
Summer solstice is celebrated on St.John's night.
About Halloween...I think the whole world knows about it. It was the Celtic new year's eve.
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This just to say that history is made by people, common people, and that religions and cultures are closer than it seems. Witches exist in EVERY culture of the world....

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I do have to ask, in all seriousness: what is "piroquinetic"? I can't figure out what you mean.


I guess it's the ability of set thing on fire. Like when you say "Incendio". smile.gif

Just to say it, I AM a witch. And I exist... blink.gif

Witchmom )O(
Hermione10
YES! Why not? I've voted that it's extremly possible! Why? Because this "legend" about them exists from a looong time! I guess that you all had heard about Merlin! The greatest wizard of all times! And that he was King Artur's friend! I think that he really existed! And once, I've meeted a woman on the street, who was wearing a strange black dress, who looked allmost like a Hogwarts robe! She sed to me that when I'll have 13 years (that happened 2 years ago, because now I have 15 years biggrin.gif ), my father will give me a bicke (for present). And guess what! It really happened! It's not a lie! Really! Now, I think that wizards really exists! But they just don't whant to show themselfs! wink.gif
etphonehome
you go girl (witchmom).

Some of the books that I have, say that historically women (the sacred feminine) were healers, this made them revered by many. Unfortunatley for them along came some all powerful men who saw to it that these lovely ladies were discredited and they did this by saying that the potions that they brewed were evil. Thats where the witches are evil view came from. So I believe that a true witch is a healer who uses the resources of mother nature to brew potions to make people well, not unlike the chemists of today. So pretty much what witchmom said.

How many of us have turned to 'Natural Remedies' to cure our ills?
witchmom
It's always wonderful to read from you, Etphonehome--- heart.gif

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How many of us have turned to 'Natural Remedies' to cure our ills?


Before natural remedies such as the simple boiled water with laurel and a hint of lemon peel, or the infusion of fennel seeds, or the chamomile infusion that everyone knows how to do...let's talk about the pharmacy drugs: first of all, the aspirin..acetysalicylic acid...derived from willow bark. Oxytocin (many of us have experimented it during our labors....) derived from ergot (a type of rye). Digitalis for the heart, from foxglove. There are thousands of active principles among modern drugs that come directly from herbs and plants, or are recreated in laboratories exactly how witches did in their kitchens.
Not to mention omeopathic medicine or Bach Flowers...

(That's one of the 100 reasons why I love Snape so much, he's a competent healer...)

Witchmom )O(

james pickles
Well that's funny about the natural remedies because me and my grandma turn to plant to cure ulsers in our mouths and burns, stings, cuts, stomach ache, even Lemon Balm had antiviral and memory restorative properties. We made tea out of Thyme and Hyssop and use the Aloe Vera cacti but our burns and stings.
Cassiopeia
The use of herbs does not equal witchcraft. Smearing a little aloe on a burn or drinking ginger tea for an upset tummy is no different than any other form of medical treatment, except in terms of sophistication and efficacy.

Witchmom, a lot of what you say is a matter of opinion. I'm not going to disparage what you believe, but I'm not going to agree with you either.

I think we're confusing several different ideas that all use the same labels. In terms of this discussion, witch and wizard means someone who has a fairy tale version of magic, like in the HPverse. Ideology and religion aren't the same thing as wand waving, and it's probably not a good idea to mix the three issues here. That seems like a recipe for misunderstanding and wank.
witchmom
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The use of herbs does not equal witchcraft.

I didn't say the contrary. I said that the witches were the first healers. It's not me who invented it, I wrote a dissertation for my second graduation about it, so I guess I have a discrete knowledge of the matter. Healing was a sacred activity, linked to religion.

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Witchmom, a lot of what you say is a matter of opinion.


What exactly? please specify, and I'll try to explain better and give you the sources, which are university texts and not youngsters' magazines.

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I'm not going to disparage what you believe, but I'm not going to agree with you either.


Don't worry, I'm not here to convince anyone but just to propose my point of view. Personally I don't agree with a totally scientific approach to life, but if you like it, be it. I was only suggesting that maybe our worlds are not so far apart as you could imagine. But if you don't see any connections, fine then...for me it's just the same...it's ok anyway.
I think that witchcraft and religion ARE related, maybe not in a way that the scientist/atheist or the christian could understand fully. Witchcraft is a spirituality based on Nature, whose laws are physics, and are recognized as points of reference by witches.

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I think we're confusing several different ideas that all use the same labels. In terms of this discussion, witch and wizard means someone who has a fairy tale version of magic, like in the HPverse.


The thread says: Do witches and wizards exist? The answer is yes/no as far as the Potterverse is concerned. There is fiction in it but also, matter-of-factly, a lot of things JKR uses in her works are taken directly from modern and druidic witchcraft and mythology. If you don't believe in magic, it can be ok for you, but for other people, it's a reality both physical and spiritual.

I'd be happy to move the discussion elsewhere. Please see my comment in the thread "Religion?"

Witchmom )O(
prince_halfblood_22
Yes, they do exist!! my ex-girlfriend is a wikkan witch. no not wicked, wikkan, it is a type of magic. she does hexes, curses, jinxes, charms, and enchantments. she she even admitted to brewing a real love potion, like the one in slughorns first potions class with the trio!!! i smelled, burning fall leaves, salty sea air, and her perfume!! she is a genius at potions. also, she has trasfigured a broom right infront of my eyes, she is a very good flier!! much like harry in that sence. also, she hexed me when we broke up!! she put a spell on me, now i cant get another girlfriend, i have been trying to find her, so she can reverse it, because i am sure she is over the breakup by now. it wasnt my fault or hers anyway. her dad just thought that she was too young to date, she was 15 at the time and i was 16. so to answer the question as to is there really witches and wizards out there, a big YES!! also, there are more than just good witches and wizards i have came across a warlock before, that slashed at me with his staff and my face erupted in blood, i had to go to my girlfriend that was a witch and have her do the counter curse. so yes, there are good and there are dark wizards and witches!!


<EVERY BIT OF THIS IS TRUE AND IF IT WERENT I WOULDNT HAVE POSTED IT!!!!!!!>
Phoenix92
Iam sure witches and wizards really had existed.But may be not now.Who is going to perform magic when you have all the facilities in the Muggle world???.We have lie detecting machines,washing machines,vaccums and many others.You can't live without electricity in the wizarding world.I am not against witch craft but just said that it may not exist now.
Guin
I say yes because magic is something that happens that we can't explain. Before fire was invented/discovered, we didn't know how to make magic. I think that magic is just another word for unexplainable technology that we don't understand yet. Also who is to say that people don't have extraordinary abilities that we have yet to tap into. It has been said that we (humans) don't even use 100% of our brain capacity, so who's to say what we are capable of?

"Nothing is impossible; certain things are more improbable than others, but nothing is impossible." A. C. Doyle

Sorry, I posted before I had a chance to read through any of the responses, and what a lively discussion we are all having on this topic. I'm glad that all of this information is being disseminated, and I hope to keep looking back for more interesting tidbits.

About the Salem Witch trials, there are a ton of excellent book out there describing a lot of the different causes of the trials, and one theory is that a lot of the women who were persecuted were independently wealthy from being widowed, inheritance, etc. and this was a bit of an affront to mainstream society where a woman should be a wife, mother, and daughter, and not an independent person of means. So there are a lot of ideas out there besides a mass LSD trip. (By the way the theory of ergotism (moldy bread) has been used to explain the French Revolution as well).
molly_of_slytherin
hmmmm i'm not quite sure, but i guess some supernatural things go on as there are so many stories about ghosts etc which can't be scientifically explained, and not ALL of them can have been made up surely?

i think in another part of the universe things would be able to happen which would seem like magic to us, but would be to do with different types of force fields, like in magnetism. maybe in another galaxy, the beings have some sort of force field about them which would make it possible to affect objects around them which they could have some sort of control over? that could make spells like wingardium leviosa or accio possible...

we may be able to do these things in future, like have you guys seen that invisibility cloak yet? all down to science. i don't think magic words exist as that is purely vocal, but i think i believe in some people's energy and supernatural ability being better than others. we shall see...hopefully happy.gif
Spencer Potter
I actually never thought about it, I always enjoyed reading superstitions but Id love to see some real magic or ''healing'' powers. Id love to learn more about it alot. ph34r.gif
**pigwidgeon**
I don't think it's possible.
i mean, try explaining what happens when you perform a spell atomically ??
it breaks so many accepted scientific laws to just conjure up something out of thin air.

but then again, witch craft isn't a new idea. think about the witch burnings: that was centuries ago, but the idea is still common today.
i don't think magic exists. scientifically it's too difficult to explain. No.
alkisti
I'm pretty sure magic exists, i don't know and i can't explain how it works, but i think it exists. I've heard of many stories from friends who would have no reason to lie. For example, i heard this story: there was this very happy family and everyone was jealous of them. Suddenly, they started getting sick, one of the kids and his dad had a severe accident and they almost died. Anyway, one day the grandmother of the family, was cleaning the front yard and she found a small wierd puppet hidden behind a flower. She destroyed it immediately. The next day, the parent and the kid got out of the emergency room and everyone got healthy again. That story really freaked me out... And that's only one of the stories i've heard... So, yes, i believe in the existence of magic.
K.Lupin_werewolf
Witches and Wizards do exist... in my opinion...

i have a little book of spells myself... me and my twin sister did a spell a while back with a friend of ours. the spell was to make our older sister nicer to us. i don't remember the details as it was some time ago but in the end we were under the impression that it had worked as for quite some time our sister was much nicer to us... it is just a shame that it did not last forever! lol

there is a spell that i want to do from the book i have now... in fact there are a few but i don't believe i have the mental strength or power to do so... shame really...

i very much think it is a part of every day life... magic is every where from spells to the birth of a new born to that first kiss to the happiness we share with others...
witchmom
The point about magic is, that Magic itself is pure, is neutral. No black-red-white magic exist. It's the intention behind magic that makes its orientation good or bad: indeed, there are people who use magic for evil purposes or good purposes.

Witches are usually not inclined to hurt anyone, because they respect deeply all the creatures on Earth, even the non-living ones. Sometimes they defend themselves, banning from their lives those who want to hurt them.

Of course, there are bad people among witches, too. Luckily I don't know a single evil witch.

Many young people discover that it's not good playing with magic. Never, never make magic on another person without his/her consent, even if he/she needs help. It's like when you need a drug because you're ill, don't you read about the collateral effects?

People often use magic to obtain what they don't have the courage or ability to achieve themselves. I mean, if I want that person to love me, I simply try to be nice, smile, ...I try to make myself interesting to his eyes, be it for love or friendship purposes. Why use magic if I have my hands, my will, my brain, my emotions? Real witches themselves practice less magic than you may think. They're not always stirring cauldrons...

Our will is the most powerful magic tool. Meditation and concentration make the right addition to it. Some years of study are necessary before starting to practice magic. Before, it's not wise. You should be aware of the links we have with the universe...that's from where magic comes...

Magic is a force, and if you're not ready to dominate it, better not to handle it. Take it as a motherly advice, not a rebuke or a menace. Would you drive a car without knowing the controls? wink.gif

Witchmom )O(
K.Lupin_werewolf
deep and profound words witchmom....

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Our will is the most powerful magic tool. Meditation and concentration make the right addition to it. Some years of study are necessary before starting to practice magic. Before, it's not wise. You should be aware of the links we have with the universe...that's from where magic comes...

Magic is a force, and if you're not ready to dominate it, better not to handle it. Take it as a motherly advice, not a rebuke or a menace. Would you drive a car without knowing the controls?


your are a very wise person if you don't mind me saying! biggrin.gif magic i feel it everwhere! from the very air breathe! no, i wouldn't drive a car without knowing the controls nor will i consider praticing magic in the future unless i feel i have studied it!!
writer101
Do they exist? Duh! I've always pictured Rowling as a Hogwarts grauduate who's on the run from the Ministry because she wrote books depicting the wizarding world to Muggle people... no, I'm kidding. That would be funny, though.
But I do think they exist. It's completely possible. Poor me, I'm just a Muggle. biggrin.gif
witchmom
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your are a very wise person if you don't mind me saying! biggrin.gif magic i feel it everwhere! from the very air breathe! no, i wouldn't drive a car without knowing the controls nor will i consider praticing magic in the future unless i feel i have studied it!!


My dear, I feared I had been too passionate in my speech, and I ask you to forgive me if I have offended you. I'm a bit of Molly Weasley in some moments and I tend to overprotect.
I had already read your posts in other threads and I like your enthusiasm and goodhearted character.
I am sure you are a responsible person! and by the way, my post was a bit of general to all the people who are in the thread.

Brightest blessings

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