Wicca is a religion, she explained, and like in any religion, there can be people of questionable intent. Witches and Wiccans, according to Wildman-Hanlon, rarely try to invoke change unless they have “a darn good reason to.” According to this law, whatever energy a witch puts into the world, positive or negative, will return to them three times.
Wildman-Hanlon added that as a Wiccan, she along with many others believes in the threefold law, also known as the rule of three. It’s about a minor poking of the web, minor shifts in perception, minor changes that end up creating other kinds of waves.” “We don’t have special powers and we are not going to cause harm to people. Those magic workers are often portrayed in the movies, she says, as cauldron-stirring, black-robe wearing, incantation-chanting enchantresses like in the TV drama “Charmed” and the 1996 movie “The Craft,” which showed a quartet of teenage witches casting disfiguring curses on their enemies. There are, she said, a wide range of people who are “magic-workers.” It is earth-based spirituality that acknowledges the divine in many forms.”Īccording to Wildman-Hanlon, not all witches are Wiccan, which is a branch of Paganism or neo-paganism. “Wicca is a modern form of witchcraft,” said Wildman-Hanlon, office manager for the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts. This she says, is not at all what real Wicca and witchcraft are about. She doesn’t wear a pointed hat or have green skin, and she certainly doesn’t turn men into frogs. Laura Wildman-Hanlon, a practicing Wiccan, is not your Hollywood witch.
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