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Most people I have met practice a religious form of witchcraft. Even "traditional witchcraft" seems to have religious and nonreligious components. It seems that many have a supreme witch mother and witch father. Do you believe all witches essentially worship the same deities? Why or why not?

SFG brings up a good point. Most ENP witches appear to be soft polys. That rather throws things out a bit.

You do have a point. Though I was thinking that it might be possible that these deities are mistaken as other deities because of similarities.

Do you consider your craft and your religion to be separate?

Pretty much. If they ever cross it's once in a blue moon. I'm much more confident in my craft than in my religion. I just don't have the resources to further my religious education at the moment.

The thing about witchcraft is that it is a practice. You do not need a specific god or goddess to practice it.

Let's take an example of a simple spell: Cord magic. Nine knots in a piece of (usually) black cord. Each knot is supposed to hold the powers of the witch and the will of the witch.

Meet Maria, a nice Christian school-girl that practices witchcraft. Also meet Sabrina, a nice girl that doesn't worship anyone but practices witchcraft.

Now, both Maria and Sabrina want a date for the prom (yay prom) so they do a simple cord spell to "pull" in the date of their dreams. So, Maria invokes the power of YHVH the almighty and begins construction on her pink Cord.

Sabrina does the same except that she invokes within her personal power and triggers this into the cord as the chants her spell. She may even put a bit of saliva or blood on each knot to power it.

Voila, both get their dates.

Yes I realise that witchcraft doesn't necessarily involve deities. I was pointing out that not every witch worships a certain god and goddess.

I was talking specifically about traditions of witchcraft that revolve around the worship of a God and Goddess. Typical religious modern witchcraft.