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Traditional:

1 a: an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom) b: a belief or story or a body of beliefs or stories relating to the past that are commonly accepted as historical though not verifiable

2: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction

3: cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions

4: characteristic manner, method, or style <in the best liberal tradition>

 

Contemporary:1: happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time

2 a: simultaneous b: marked by characteristics of the present period : modern , current

 

Witchcraft:1: Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers.

2: In England, the term ‘witch’ was not used exclusively to describe malevolent magicians, but could also indicate cunning folk. “There were a number of interchangeable terms for these practitioners, ‘white’, ‘good’, or ‘unbinding’ witches, blessers, wizards, sorcerers, however ‘cunning-man’ and ‘wise-man’ were the most frequent.”… Continue reading

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