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In broad terms Witchcraft is thought to be the practice of magical skills and abilities which can be practised by either an individual or group. Witchcraft has three main roles which is religious, divinatory and medicinal, however there are other smaller subjects that link with witchcraft such as sorcery, magic, nercromancy and healing.

Witchcraft originated from The Old Testament Laws which said that Witchcraft was seen as evil and was a form of devil worship. This soon led to the famous Witch trials, which was mainly done in protestant Europe. The witch trials caused people to be tortured, killed and scapegoated. Witches that were thought to have had melavolent causes were the first to be sent to trial where as those that were thought to benevolent thought were accepted into the community, however trying to tell the difference between the two types was incredibly difficult.

Witchcraft is mainly based on spell casting, so the ability to cast a magical action. A spell can be done in a few different ways, some of which are: Chants, runes or a ritual action. Spells can be done for all sorts of magic.

Necromancy: Necromancy is the conjuring of spirits and the dead. This would be classed as the devil worship magic and would cause the witch to go straight to the trials.

White Witch: White witches were thought to be the kinder witches, however in reality they were more like herb healers. This did end up killing a good few women as it was still seen as witchcraft.

In the 20th century people started looking more into the practice of witchcraft and eventually books were published stating that wtitchcraft wasn't acually bad. This then led to the Wiccan religion, which is still practised today.