Witch or Warlock? What Does it Mean?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2022
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Titles are important to a lot of people, however, some of them come with certain taboos attached to them. Warlock is one word that has gotten a bad name but what does it really mean? Let's find out.
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VVardi-Lokkur: A man who can invoke/commune/bind/banish spirits. This term was often used as a chant/song (even a title) by male shamans towards spirits of the deceased/otherworldly as a means to curse an enemy, heal someone, or gain knowledge from these beings. It was even used to describe men who were gifted with "Seidr" (magic)
Warloga became the Anglo Saxon term/variant borrowed from the Scandinavian "VVardi-Lokkur" which was used to describe a wise & cunning man/a man who has wisdom/spiritual knowledge.
The Scottish borrowed the term and pronounced it as "Warlock" which was in fact used to describe a male sorcerer/witch/shaman/wizard - it's at this point in time when the term was very boldly used to lable male practitioners.
The only real reason the term warlock was misused to describe a traitor is when christian missionaries/inquisitors were trying to stamp out "heresy" they would go to towns that harbored a witch/coven/alchemist/herbalist or any other individual who practiced magick and infiltrate them, they would pass themselves off as a warlock/practitioner/witch etc and would gain their trust to become an initiate of these occult practices, and then betray them once they had all the info they needed to have them arrested/tortured/executed by the churches authority - this is the main reason for the misunderstanding of the term warlock.
Wiccans - especially male practitioners eventually come to reject the term instead of embracing it due to it's tarnished reputation and instead just use the term witch. Historically women were usually viewed as witches - which made the term seem more feminine, but I agree had sometimes been used to describe both men & women. In ages past the term warlock was used proudly by men of esoteric knowledge long before the rise of abrahamic faiths, I'm glad to see more men reclaim the term and restore it's lost honor.
Thanks for the info
No. Vardlokkur is Icelandic and would be ward lock in English. Ward meaning guard and protect. Lock meaning bind/fasten/ fix. The varlokkur was a name for a lost type of sung prayer literally meaning protection binding. Warlock comes from Warlog pronounced Warlow and was recored in around 830-840 ce and means lawman, from the plural Warlogan. Through German and Danish it became Warloche and into Scottish back into English Warlock as a misinterpretation resulting in the meaning Binding Man (one who makes binding degrees as a sort of judge) and later misapplied to and an exorcist. That is how John Dryden interpreted it in the 1690s when he wrote: "Warlock in Scotland is applied to a man whom the vulgar suppose to be conversant with spirits, as a woman who carries on the same commerce is called a witch:" The source for Wiccan that is a plural of Wicce and only spelled with Wicce when connected to another word and sometimes as a Wicca was pronounced Weech, but again through the same exchanges over the centuries changed form to Wecha, Wiche, Wechta, Witchae, and eventually as Witch. Like War became wer being akin to Latin vir for man as in male person, wicca/wicce is akin to Latin vicia/wicia (pronounced veech-e-ae) meaning speak, tell and announce, which is why in the Domboc it is used for women as fortune tellers. But because Warlock as lock means bind was assumed to be the original meaning, it was merely assumed Witch meant twist or bind also and so such toying with etymology more or less invent connections that were not there and the nonsense was just taken as is without challenge and entered as such.
@@talismanskulls2857 No. It is of Norse origin and was applied to men who served as the village shaman (Lapp/Sami) and much later used to describe a male witch by the Scottish around the 16th century. See: if you had paid attention to the comment I posted - you would've learned something.
Thanks for showing the distinctions between witch and warlock. I was unaware of the history.
I view myself as a kind of sorcerer.
I actually like the term Cunning Man, but try and explain that to people. The word cunning in modern English has to do with achieving something through deceit, but (to the best of my knowledge) it has it's roots in the word ken which means "to know".
Thank you for the explanation and history behind the origin of these words. Every time someone says the word Warlock I immediately thing DnD and I actually like that witch is gender neutral. That makes it more inclusive in my views
Yes warlock does have a fantasy vibe about it :)
I prefer to consider myself a black magickian, witch to me seems feminine due to how a witch is mostly referred to as she in most books and in Hollywood as well. Society has seem to made a distinction between males and females of magick. Warlock sounds too fantasy for me to consider it's use, but that's just me.
Does it sound a bit daft if I said? "The disturbance and uncertainties of the recent time has opened doors for me?"
Business and social.
It's sort of been a means of creating, as the certainty of events change to possibly rather than probably.
Cheers man.
Not at all. With all the changes that have happened over the past two years, everything has gotten a new perspective
This is a fairly decent interpretation from a english perspective, if you look at old english trials warlock was used mainly on women who committed adultery and therefore broke their oath with god, a word borrowed from scandinavia originally meaning one who sang to the spirits to soothe the cattle but latter meant one who would do anything to survive including using the dark arts and those spirits
It definitely has an interesting history, thanks for your additions.
Is this a joke? You’re offering a special? 😂😂😂You’re charging people for “healing” and you’re also asking people to “tip” you a coffee. What a disgrace to the witchcraft community.
In case you have been living under a rock, it's what some people do, offer services based on their skills and decades of knowledge and expertise. Some are plumbers, some are doctors, and you also get healers and teachers. It's what we do to pay the rent and put food on the table. If someone doesn't want healing but appreciates the content that I provide, they can tip me for the effort I put in. Really not that complicated to understand. To call me a disgrace to the witchcraft community simply shows your immaturity. So, now you can move on, have a fantastic life.