About internet witches and wishful thinking

I am writing this post following a discussion that occured on a forum of Italian witches. Basically, one user noticed that some people she had not liked very much had had disgraceful accidents. Although she admittedly had no thought of hurting these people, she concluded from this that she may have some obscure power, therefore feeling sad and guilty as she had not wished for this to happen. Apart from telling an interesting story about the kind of readership Italian forums about stregoneria tend to attire these days, this also points to the issue of witchcraft, psychic abilities and spellwork. The particular discussion I had on the forum, however, was not with the user who opened the thread, but with another who jumped in explaining that this was absolutely nature and an expression of the first user's amazing psychic abilities. My WTF! rolled out copiously.

Love spells

Everyone wants a love spell. No matter what form of witchcraft you practise, you will sooner or later find yourself having to deal with a love spell, either because someone asks you to perform it or because you want  to do it for yourself. A reasonable quantity of love spells is available online and in specialised books, so this post will not give actual spells but it will rather provide hints on the different kinds of love spells, the way they work and their effectiveness.

The knot of contention

I was asked long ago to write an article in order to spell out the differences between Wicca, and what it is  known to anglo-american witches as stregheria or stregoneria. The forum for which the article was thought does not exist, but the question is still alive. These three terms, wicca, stregheria and stregoneria have often been used as synonymous. When a difference has been made, this was in order to differentiate Gardnerian or Alexandrian witchcraft from stregheria or stregoneria, which is seen as an Italian variant of the old religion.