pearls and satin
so many people who practice witchcraft on tumblr believe that it’s like… inherently a religion, that it can’t be secular, that secular witches aren’t “real” witches, blah blah blah. please, i’m begging you, examine witchcraft outside the lens of new age occult authors or what you read on this echo chamber of a site. take an anthropology class at your community college. please. magic, witchcraft, and religion are three different things. scientifically. culturally. it’s okay if you consider your practice part of your religion, but please try to understand that your experiences are not universal, and that for the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years that humans have being doing those three things–magic, witchcraft, and religion–they have been separate entities (sometimes combined in practice, though!) in too many cultures to count.
