Witchcraft vs Heresy - What's the difference?
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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 ,
(religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.
* 1968 , History of Western Civilization, edited by Heyes, Baldwin & Cole, p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67–13596
A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
As nouns the difference between witchcraft and heresy
is that witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events while heresy is a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.witchcraft
English
(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 .
See also
* spellcraft * gypsycraft English words suffixed with -craftheresy
English
(wikipedia heresy)Alternative forms
*Noun
(heresies)- Heresy meant deliberate departure from the accepted doctrines of the church. It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents.
