what is a sand witch?
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Witch that protects the sand.  And if you come near her territory, she will turn you into more sand.\n\nSandwich is a meat and cheese in between bread.
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means they're old school, and make magick with whatever they happen to have around--the old time witches would never have had anything for purely ceremonial use--they'd have used what herbs were in the area naturally, used their kitchen broom, not a special besom, they made a lot of magick lamps just by dropping a few herbs in the oil, and it all worked fine for them--a kitchen witch is more of a purist when it comes to the craft
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Sinthyia the Wiccian Witch (NOTE: that starts with a W not a B thankyouverymuch).
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Sand is made up of tiny bits of a mineral known as quartz.
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I once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have this one singing bowl which plays differently, responding to the place where it's played, or what chakra it's played on. I use it to locate blockages for spiritual healing. I also used it to find the perfect place to set up my tent the first time I camped in Kansas. One night the wind ripped through the camp. By morning, just about every tent had blown over except mine.\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nAs for Vampires, many people drain those around them of life force, but there are some who can do it purposefully. They have the ability to reach out and drain a person's energy. They say it's better than caffeine. \n\nI have a good friend who can do that. She's the only energy vampire I know who uses her power for good. She takes people's headaches. She also has an amazing ability to sense energies, making her one of the most powerful witches I know (I know a lot of witches who claim to be powerful, but very few who actually are). I have known her for many years and we are very close friends.\n\nOne time it was the dead of winter, she was sitting next to a window, and she felt someone looking at her. She looked and there was someone dressed in black with no color in their body sitting across the road, intently looking at her. She looked down for no more than five seconds, looked up again, and he was sitting on her side of the road, still intently looking at her. He was not dressed for the cold, but was not shivering at all. Just intense calm looking at her. She immediately closed the blinds realizing that she had just had an encounter with a real vampire. A real vampire and a kindred spirit. It probably wasn't a vampire like Dracula or what we see from Hollywood, but it was definitely something from outside of our mundane existence.
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Only if there is a witch it can live in a mountain and come out of the mountain and go back. There is actually no witch. It is only an imaginary and fictional character in some of the Walt Disney pictures. So there is no mountain also called in name.-
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is a system of divination that originated in West Africa among the Yoruba people. The system is also practiced among believers in Lucumi, (sometimes referred to as Santería), Candomblé, and similarly transplanted Orisa'Ifa lineages in the New World.
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The Wikipedia says this: one facile with words, witch, shape-shifter, and animal co-essence. The last is a name for an entity, to which refers a widespread and ancient Mesoamerican belief that one part of the souls of humans (or human-like figures, such as gods), manifests itself as a sort of animal (or phenomenon, such as lightning) of a spiritual character. The Mayan term is way. The belief is still current in many parts of Mesoamerica, though the term may vary. Nagual has found its way into the Mexican Spanish idiom, with the meaning lie or trick.\nI am not one.
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I agree with Tina and Shadowpixie... as a Witch I know that when you use something as unreliable as an open portal...well what comes in more often than not, is something you just do not or can not deal with, and unless you are VERY good at cleansing you may have to deal with what you let through for a very VERY long time.
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Yes, but some take offense at the word "Witches" because it has implications of bad. \nWicca is a branch of Paganism. Wiccans are sometimes reffered to as witches. It is a religion with Gods and Goddesses, and yes, magic. A lot of the rituals are based on nature, and most Wiccans don't belive in hurting people or cursing people, as that can have strong reprecussions.
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It is a hideous witch of Russian folklore that lived deep in the middle of the forest. It was reported to have iron teeth, and live in a house that spun while it moved around. She had a fierce appetite, but remained almost like a skeleton. My grandmother used to try to scare us with the  stories of Baba Yaga.
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Yes there are people doing black magic to harm other people, not quite sure about witches though.
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The swamp witch. It's fun.
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Merry Meet\n Witch school .com has extensive info that would be of good ues to you and also give free online classes, you can take at your own pace. also if you would like a place to chat and learn try www.cepf-usa.org .
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Witches are just normal people like you and I, they are not super beings.. they just practice magic. some practice black magic, and some white magic.. You need to stay away from the ones who practice black magic, they are only making trouble for themselves... but a person who practices white magic is doing good, for themselves and people around them.. black magic comes back to bite them in the butt 10 fold.. it must be carefully done.. and if you don't know what you are doing, you are going to get yourself and ones around you in big trouble.. White Witches are good at heart, and do good for all... A person who practices black magic will die with evil in their heart, and be damned for all eternity, and live a life of damnation.. not someone I would want to hang around with.. A white witch is doing good for mankind and the animals and the environment.. stick this them..
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enchantress: a female sorcerer or magician \na being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil \nWiccan: a believer in Wicca \nhag: an ugly evil-looking old woman \nhex: cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nThe term witchcraft (and witch) is a controversial one with a complicated history. Used in entirely different contexts, and within entirely different cultural references, it can take on distinct and often contradictory meanings. Each culture has its own particular body of concepts dealing with magic, religion, benevolent and harmful spirits, and ritual; and these ideas do not find obvious equivalents in other cultures. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch\n\nOne who worships the Goddess, and sometimes also Her Consort, the God; practices magic; and considers her/himself to be following the spiritual path of Witchcraft.\nwww.geocities.com/sorchagriannon/terminology.htm\n\nA member of the Wicca religion. A practitioner of witchcraft. There are many types and traditions of witches. A witch is not necessarily a Wiccan, though if a Wiccan practices witchcraft they can be called a witch.\nwww.reiki.nu/treatment/healing/dictionary5/dictionary5.html\n\nsomeone who practices witchcraft to help better the world and mankind. A witch is NOT someone who is ugly, worships the devil, or hurts people.\nmembers.aol.com/fadeddragn/dictionary.html\n\nA general word for Pagans worldwide although traditionally those of Anglo-Celtic, Celtic or Teutonic traditions.\nwww.moonbeamgarden.com/witchscottage/wiccan_pagan_glossary.htm\n\nHazel Witch Hazel improves skin tone, helps restore circulation and fights broken capillaries. This herb works as a astringent and is great for tired, sluggish, oily, dry, and infected skin.\nwww.bodyandfitness.com/Beauty/Skin-Care/glossary_b.htm\n\nA women with supernatural powers.\nwww.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com/definitions.htm\n\nThe word 'witch' is a loaded word. In today's society it means different things to different people. For our uses, a witch is someone who is a follower of the nature based religion of 'Wicca'. Please read our section on "What is Witchcraft?" on our home page to understand the beliefs of such a person. The word 'witch' comes from the Middle English word 'wicche' which was basically a wise woman that practiced the Old Religion. ...\nmembers.tripod.com/~jack_in_the_green/terms/terms.html\n\nInitiated male or female member of the Old Religion; a practioner of Witchcraft.\nmysticcauldron.com/dictionary2.html\n\nA name given to someone who works with magic(k)al powers and natural substances and uses them to help and heal. Magic(k) can be used for both good and evil, but is generally used solely for the good.\nwww.witchdom.com/LearnCraft/Glossaries/gloss%20w.htm
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If you've strolled along a beach in Maine, you've probably found a sand dollar. But what is a sand dollar? Children have been known to say that sand dollars are pressed sand that has been dried or even the money of mermaids washed-up from the deep. In reality, the fragile disk is the skeleton or "test" of a marine animal. By the time the test washes up on the beach it is missing its velvety covering of minute spines and appears somewhat bleached from the sun. It is hard to believe it was once alive. \n\nSand dollars are from the class of marine animals known as Echinoids, spiny skinned creatures. Their relations include the sea lily, the sea cucumber, the star fish and the sea urchin. When alive, the local species, Echinarachnius parma is outfitted in a maroon-colored suit of moveable spines that encompass the entire shell. Like its close relative the sea urchin, the sand dollar has five sets of pores arranged petal pattern. The pores are used to move sea water into its internal water-vascular system which allows for movement. \n\nSand dollars live beyond mean low water on top of or just beneath the surface of sandy or muddy areas. The spines on the somewhat flattened underside of the animal allow it to burrow or to slowly creep through the sand. Fine, hair-like cilia cover the tiny spines. These cilia, in combination with a mucous coating, move food to the mouth opening which is in the center of the star shaped grooves on the underside of the animal. Its food consists of plankters and organic particles that end up in the sandy bottom. \n\nDue to their diminutive edible parts and relatively hard skeleton, few animals bother sand dollars. One animal found to enjoy them on occasion is the thick-lipped, eel-like ocean pout. \n\nOn the ocean bottom, sand dollars are frequently found together. This is due in part to their preference of soft bottom areas as well as convenience for reproduction. The sexes are separate and gametes are released into the water column as in most echinoids. The free-swimming larvae metamorphose through several stages before the test begins to form and they become bottom dwellers. \n\nSince the sand dollar lives in sandy locations, anyone who would like to collect their shells should comb beaches as the tide recedes. The very best time for collecting is after a heavy storm, as many of the shells that have died are dredged up by the increased wave action.\n\nCheryl Page \n\nInformation for this article was taken from: \n\nGosner, Kenneth L., Guide to Identification of Marine and Estuarine Invertebrates; 1971 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. \nRobbins, Sarah Fraser and Clarice Yentsch, The Sea Is All About Us ; 1973 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.