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| Topic | Sorcerer/Sorceress VS Wizard/Witch VS Warlock |
| Sahuagin 08/01/18 5:40:23 AM #13: | YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... Like why would you call someone a witch over a sorceress historically I don't think there's any distinction. it's all "witchcraft". as in summoning evil spirits (demons/djinn/etc) to do supernatural things for you. but I don't think it's well-known that historical witchcraft is literally the same thing as the "magic" we know today (IE: sleight-of-hand). it's just that superstition was off the scale in medieval times, and so sleight-of-hand was seen as literal witchcraft. there was a book published called "The Discovery of Witchcraft" trying to explain that witchcraft was just sleight-of-hand and had nothing really to do with anything supernatural. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverie_of_Witchcraft it was almost destroyed by King James (the same KJ from KJV) who was fanatical anti-witchcraft, and countered it with the book "Demonology", declaring that magic (sleight-of-hand) was really true supernatural witchcraft (communing with demons). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemonologie --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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