{"id":42447,"date":"2021-10-30T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42447"},"modified":"2021-10-30T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:45:54","slug":"philosophy-what-is-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-what-is-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: what is a witch?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Halloween and traditions: the tutor looks into the definition of &#8220;witch.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nTraditionally, the reason people have been afraid of witches, as I understand, isn&#8217;t because they&#8217;re scary or evil. Rather, it&#8217;s because of the belief that witches can manipulate people: the &#8220;magic&#8221; people fear is control the witch can gain over a person&#8217;s mind. Witches are thought to access this power from a supernatural entity, or perhaps by harvesting it from the environment; either way, it&#8217;s thought that non-witches can&#8217;t do so.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/witchcraft\">britannica.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Halloween and traditions: the tutor looks into the definition of &#8220;witch.&#8221; Traditionally, the reason people have been afraid of witches, as I understand, isn&#8217;t because they&#8217;re scary or evil. Rather, it&#8217;s because of the belief that witches can &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-what-is-a-witch\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy: what is a witch?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42451,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42447\/revisions\/42451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}