I am so sick of people coming up with the same old bulshit line saying that someone can't be a Witch unless it's in their bloodline. WITCHCRAFT IS A LEARNED TRAIT!!!
Just because you may have someone in your family who practices Witchcraft DOES NOT mean that you are a born Witch. It takes knowledge to practice something and having someone in your family who practices Witchcraft does not automatically mean you don't have to study to gain that knowledge.
The craft is not embedded into one's DNA; You are not born with all the knowlege, skills etc...needed to practice Witchcraft. You cannot know straight from birth the VARIOUS uses of herbs, oils, stones, and such as a baby, child, or whatever.
It's such a crock to say that you must have witchcraft in your bloodline to be a proper witch. I am a solitary Witch, the only Witch in my family. I studied, learned, and practiced for just shy 10 years!! So don't tell me that I cannot be a Witch because I do not have it in my bloodline!!
I am a Witch and nothing you can say or do will make me see otherwise.
I am a Witch and will continue to be one until the day comes when my path takes me elsewhere (if it does)!!!!!!!
***I just want to make an addition to this post, as it seems there are many out there that believe that one is also "Born" a Witch, and this too is untrue. As mentioned above, everything a person knows is learned. No one possesses knowledge of something straight from the womb. The term "born witch" only exists in fiction. Someone may be born with a natural tendency to learn more about a particular practice, but that doesn't make that person a born whatever, it simply means they have a natral inclination to learn. You can't practice something without learning how to do it first, and to say that someone is a born Witch, says to me that they are flaunting something that they don't really have. A true Witch knows that it takes knowledge and skill to do something and that knowledge and skill ONLY comes after YEARS of study and practice, not simply because mom was a Witch or Wiccan. That doesn't mean you're a born Witch.
Something to keep in mind when someone makes a wild claim such as this.
As a non hereditary Witch myself, i agree it is a shame when people put out this sort of exclusive opinion. Witchcraft is free..it belongs to no one.
ReplyDeleteI think Rowling reiterated this arguement by making it asub theme of her "Harry Potter" stories. Muggles and pure bloods. It's a common theme of the us vs them mentality.
ReplyDeleteThis is part of the problem, why many believe that you can only be of "Witchy Blood" in order to practice Witchcraft. In actuality, anyone in the world is of "Witchy Blood" as anyone can become a Witch. You don't have to have a certain lineage in order to practice, and people need to realize this.
ReplyDeleteJust because "Great, Great Grandma" was a gardener, doesn't mean you have Witchcraft flowing through your veins.
Actually a person who is a natural born is not the same. Yes anyone can learn but others get it from pass down genes. Of course anyone can tell the difference and some do take it too far. It dos side to say many just to too much and make us look bad because of that.
ReplyDelete@Dark_ I don't believe in this idea that one is superimposed through "destiny" that they're to be Witches, regardless of if it's through a bloodline or not. To say someone is a Witch through bloodline or birth makes as much sense as saying someone is born a pianist through bloodline or birth. Someone can have a natural talent for playing the piano, but they still have to study it. That doesn't mean they were born into it or have it "in their blood". It just doesn't make sense. Someone who studies all their life can play just as well as someone who has a natural aptitude for it. Both had to study it, dedicatedly.
ReplyDeleteThe same goes with the Craft. There's all this fictional nonsense that there's some sort of "bloodline" or "birthright" for Witchcraft, making it some supernatural force, when it's perfectly natural. There's no need for Witchcraft to be supernatural, for it to be special. The very reason people have the idea that Witchcraft is silly nonsense is people perpetuating the idea that Witchcraft is hereditary. You don't need a member of your family to be a Witch to make you one, and you don't need to be born with the abilities. It pushes us back further with ideas like that...further back from the steps forward we've taken to be taken seriously by the general public.
I neither believe I am born into this craft, nor do I have any sort of "bloodline" to Witchcraft. I do have bloodline to Druidry, but that doesn't make me a Druid. I know nothing about Druidry, nor do I wish to learn...doesn't interest me. Any claim a person makes that they have family members who are Witches or that they "feel" they're Witches doesn't mean (to me) that they're a Witch unless they've done the NECESSARY STUDY. Period.