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male practitioners (again, many Witches, many
answers), but on the whole you would be a lot
safer referring to male Witches as Witches. After
all, we do not use two different terms for
practitioners of other faiths. We do not refer to
Catholics and Catholicesses, or Presbyterians and
Presbyterianettes!
16. Can you be a Christian and a Witch too?? This
is a very controversial question in the Craft
community. It all depends on how you define the
word Witch. If you define it as a magickal
practitioner without reference to religion, certainly.
If you define it as a religion, and you use God,
Jesus and Mary as your deities, I suppose, though I
personally have trouble reconciling the Witch's
concept of personal responsibility with that of a
Divine Savior. I do know people for whom this
works, however, and they call themselves
Christian Witches. If it works for them, that is all
that matters. The point of spirituality is
communion with the Divine; it's a very personal
journey and no one else can determine how the
Divine should or does manifest to someone else.
17. Do you have to be born a Witch or can you
become one? You can be born into a family which
practices the religion of Witchcraft, but that no
more makes you a Witch than being born into a
family of Methodists makes you a Methodist. I
was born into such a family; still I had to study
hard and choose the faith I wanted to follow. This
is again one of those questions that tends to use the
word Witch interchangeably with the idea of
magick. One can be born with a flair for magick,
like one can be born with a gift for music. Not
everyone can be a concert pianist, but we can all
learn to play the piano. Those raised in families
with old roots in the magickal practices tend to be
aware of those gifts and to have them nurtured at
an earlier age than other people, but those gifts can
be developed in anyone. I will say that like
musical gifts runs in some families, magickal
talent can also be handed down, but just like a
musical family needs to offer the child the
opportunity to develop his or her gift, without hard
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