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Scandinavians still use it, at least the older generations. We bake buns with saffron or cardamom and twist them into the shape of the swastika (or the suncross), a spiral or a double spiral, to celebrate that Yule/Christmas/Winter Solstice is approaching and scare away winter. It was rather...

"Do you need a personal assistant?"

In my opinion, Ouija boards are silly. Seems like a perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon, at best invoking some tricky spirits who want to play jokes on you. I think it's a bit stupid to assume that you can sit down and contact dead people, or such, who conveniently use the western alphabet...

The Pentacle, or Pentagram rather, was used before Judaism in Egypt, I think. It was then adopted by pretty much everyone in Europe. I know that Scandinavians used to carve pentagrams into the cribs of their infants to ward of the fay, trolls and the riverman. Pregnant women also wore it as...

That was so satisfying, I almost feel naughty.

I'd say that there are plenty of Wiccans who would use magic for revenge. The Wiccan Rede is advice, not the end all rule. However, I don't feel like Wicca is a religion where revenge and "bad magic" is encouraged, just like I don't feel that Christianity is a religion where "negative prayer" is...

An author is someone who has written something (a novel usually), a writer is someone who writes (or tries to). An author is a writer, but a writer is not always an author. I think.

I just realised that I wrote "But honestly, if someone wants to be Wiccan or whatever without saying they practice magic, I certainly haven't got anything against it.", which sounds kind of weird. What i meant was that if people want to practice Wicca or such religions, without adding magic to...

Heh. Looking at Scandinavian mythology, most of the goddesses are as fierce and dark as the gods, perhaps even more so (the Valkyries, for example). So no chocolate and hugs there.

I'm so sorry, I've been talking about writing and stuff for so long that I use the abbrevations automatically. Like Pathless said, it's short for Young Adult.

Well, I guess I'm an aspiring author (with no discipline ;) ). I write mostly homour and YA. If any of you guys are interested in publishing your stuff and get tips and whatnot, you could check out this forum that I post at: http://www.forumer.com/index.php?mforum=writers It's basically...

I've noticed this as well. I think it stems from a wish to be taken more "seriously" by mainstream religions, as well as a need to show newcomers that "it's not all about the spells". But honestly, if someone wants to be Wiccan or whatever without saying they practice magic, I certainly...