and Paul EllisElemental Magick By: Meaghan Ellis For the loves of my life Paul, Elvis Carrie, Anton, Thomas, Bryan, Tabitha, and Isis Table of Contents Chapter 1: Magick and Witchcraft Chapter 2: The Witchachieve to have the more settled life Witchcraft is the art and practice of magick, this includes many fields of philosophy, psychology, herbology, physics, chemistry and biology. History is also an important subject to study among witchcraft. For witchcraft has been present all through out history. For example medicines mainly come from plant life and thus you have herbology which is part of a pharmacists studies, also chemistry has a role as well. Using the elements and herbs around you to assist or harm others, the use is up to you, Many ask if wicca and witchcraft are the same they are not wicca is a nature based practice of goddess worship a reconstructionist path of older pagan religions like Greek, Celtic, and Egyptian thrown together and throwing away they old practiced rites and mythology. How is this witchcraft I ask you? Think of the definitions. Wiccans themselves use the quote you can be a witch and not a wiccan and you can be a wiecan and not a witch. Other witchcraft based faiths do not have the same saying. Which in conclusion Wicca is not the same as witchcraft and never will be. Witchcraft is much older than wicca and all other pagan, Christian and pre Christian/pagan faiths. Witchcraft and magick have existed in the beginning of time when the cave men discovered fire, and made ritual drawings depicting specific rituals and rites to hunting, natural phenomena like weather, and births. People wonder if witchcraft is still practiced today. Well witchcraft is still very much still practiced today and more so than it was 50 years or more ago. People wonder if witches actually exist well they do, but not as witches who are ugly with warts on their noses and flying around on broom sticks like in Christian fables. Witches very much do exist to this day as well