Just wondering...what would you do if your best friend of over twenty years told you she practiced witchcraft?

I wouldn't feel any differently toward her than if she told me she was a Catholic, a Methodist, a Hindu, an Agnostic or an Atheist. However is she told me she was a Muslim from the Middle east, then I'd have to frisk her.

Depends on how this friend has acted before. I mean, if she was going to church while secretly practicing witchcraft, I'd be angry at her for lying all those years. If she wasn't going to church and studying witchcraft, I might not be so angry, just wondering why she kept it a secret. And I would probably be able to tell. All the wiccans whose homes I've visited all have clues in their house (not a hulking huge "I'm a wiccan" neon sign, but little things like a small alter and lots of incense and books). I think I'd know before she told me.

Ultimately, I think it would be her choice and I'm not in a position to decide what is best for her. But my best friend is a Christian and I would be very concerned about why she would turn her back on a religion that she's believed in for her entire life (if she wasn't a "Christian Witch", whatever that is). Making such a major change in her life so abruptly would concern me but I'd support her in whatever she decided to do. The fact that I find value in witchcraft wouldn't make me want her to follow that path unless she feels it's the right thing for her to do.

I'd be so happy, because most of my friends are Catholic or were raised Catholic, and many of them I haven't come out of the broom closet to, for fear of receiving the reaction of the responses with all the thumbs down. I hope they'd react like the majority of responses you've gotten - with an open mind and a non-judgmental heart - but one of my closest friends is a DEVOUT Catholic, works at a Catholic school, the whole nine yards, so I'm not sure I'll ever be able to tell her.

Blessed be!

)O(

I'd have nothing but respect for her... if she was a TRUE wiccan you have to practice a year and a day of clensing before you can really join I looked into it and you can't eat unpure food, drink beer or liquor although some types of wine are ok and you can't engage in any sexual acts... you have to do it for a full year and a day

if my friend told me that... it wouldn't be a big deal most of my friends here at school are either atheist, agnostic or pagan so I don't care

Just tell her the truth tell her you dont intend to harm anyone, tell her why you practice witchcraft. She would probably be shocked that you kept this secret, she might be scared because a lack of information about the practice.Just inform her, if she is your true friend she will stand by you no matter what happens.Good Luck.

If she's been practicing witchcraft for awhile, I would ask myself why she didn't feel that she could share this with me earlier and perhaps what this says about me as a friend. Then I might ask her why she took so long to tell me and try to be a more accepting, loving friend.

I'm a practicing witch and some people I tell and some I don't. She would trust in you a lot to tell you to start and i hope you would respect her and still be her friend.

Anyone who would either stop being a friend or try and convert does not know the meaning of friendship.

Nothing, who cares. The church gave whitch craft a bad name and turned into something evil, to discourage people from practicing it. It is a peacful religion with some ideas that are different than what we have been raised with, but that doesn't make them any less wrong than our ideas. She is your friend and good friends are hard to come by. Don't throw your friendship away on something so trivial as that. She is still the same person you always new. This could be a test for your friendship. If you are a real friend to her, you will accept her for who she is.

I would be like "oh really? OK. How has it been working out for you?" Obviously she wants to talk about it since she brought it up so I would listen to her. If she says anything that interests me I would ask questions about it. I would want to know what spells have worked for her, cause I basically think the spells are a load of crap, but still I would be open to what she has to say. Honestly I have never talked to a witch or read about witchcraft so I would be open to what she says.

I would be thinking that I didn't know my best friend as well as I thought I did and wondering why it took twenty years for that best friend to tell me this.