Superstition vs Witchcraft - What's the difference?
superstition | witchcraft |
A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
* 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis ,
As nouns the difference between superstition and witchcraft
is that superstition is superstition while witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.superstition
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(wikipedia superstition)Noun
(en noun)witchcraft
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(wikipedia witchcraft)Noun
(en-noun)chapter XLIV:
- And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
- Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .