what interested you?

[lanesxbaines]

Well I haven't been on in a long long long time due to a car accident. but I was kind of excited to see this topic added to the forum. (Maybe it was here before, haha, I just can't remember!)
I first got interested in witchcraft in seventh grade after meeting a boy who fascinated me. He's a bit older than me. He's wiccan. He had lots of the same interests as me. He seemed soo amazing. Which he is, and has ended up to be my good good friend.
He kind of guided me, encouraged me to grow. We "study" the Craft together, read occult books over pizza. We share poetry and dreams, and our journals. He encouraged me to keep a separate journal, which later evolved to have all my works related to the Craft. We decorated our Book Of Shadows together.
I honestly thank him for opening me into a world I never knew. I was never religious, never believed what was taught in Bible School. Nor was I into nature. Now, I appreciate my surroundings more and more.
I'm raised in an Episcopal family. One thing about being Episcopalian, you're very very tolerant. So, sure, my family believed that it was just a phase, but finally accepted it wasn't. They take part in Yule traditions sometimes, which thrills me to no end.


So, I was wondering how other teenagers, or those who converted while a teen, got interested. [:

[moondaughter]

For a very long time, I thought it was a book series that had interested my in Wicca and Paganism. However, my mom told me that when I was younger I wanted to be a witch. I would go outside and put all these plants and berries into a bowl and use it for stuff. So I always knew I was a witch, but as I got older and the Catholic school reinforced their beliefs on witches being heathens and alliances with the devil and I became scared of my own thoughts and intuitions and buried them. Only then did those books resurface my repressed thoughts and I then researched things and found paganism.
My mom and dad were both practicing witches and while we don't practice together, we share a mutual belief.

[lanesxbaines]

That's really awesome. The fact that your parents have the same beliefs as you. While my mother doesn't discourage it, she doesn't much believe in anything.

[Spooktacular]

I always did magick, it was normal for me.
I just didn't know it was magick per-se.
I knew I did something not many other people did and that it was a secret.
I used to make energy balls, see shadow people, absorb & repel energy etc. when I was in primary school.
I always talked about how I wanted to be a witch.
I think being a witch is something that isn't (for me atleast) strictly based on what physical form I am in, it seems like something that is ingrained in my energy. Something that is always part of me, no matter whether i'm okay with it or not.
I found Wicca when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Went through a few different religions, then became nothing, then became an eclectic pagan. All my life I have practiced magick, when I tried to shut it out after stopping Wicca. It still happened, only i'd catch myself doing it unconsciously.
It was rather strange.
haha.

[avylonw]

Well, I was always aware of magic and wanted to practice it, but I didn't leave my christian faith untill high school, (i'm a freshman in college now) I heard about Wicca because a few of my friends practiced it (or claimed too... i think at least a couple of them were just saying it to get attention), so I decided to leave christianity for it.. failed because I didn't know anything and am way to superstisious to make it through a halloween without a god.. lol bad night that was, but eventually I did some research and found that the Neo-Wiccan path seems to be a good one for me. still really just beginning now, and I haven't told my parents

[avylonw]

woah... that's what a smiliey is on this site? that's crazy! lol

[sugarcharmz]

I was curious to see if there really was such a thing as a "Love Spell" or "Love Potion". I nosed around online and found one. I wanted to find another one since most of the ingredients I had no idea what they were, or where to find them. I found a site that had a collection of spells and a spiritual message board. I nosed around on there, read some stuff, asked a few questions, and after a long period of thinking and analyzing, I gave up the Christian god and decided to go down this road. I'm still in the process of studying, so I nose around on message boards like this one and others (you caught me, I hadn't been on here in a long time, lol). I'm just kind of floating around and learning. I'm really into divination, healing, and other things like that. When I'm in college, I'm gonna see if I can find some kind of pagan club, or maybe even join a coven (if they'll let me). I don't know, just get myself more into the culture somehow so I can learn more. There are things that books, alone, just can't tell you. \:
I feel dumb telling people that my desperate search for a love spell was what got me interested, but it's true! Lol. (:

[sugarcharmz]

Oh, I first started getting into it around this time in 2008 when I was 15 (I'm turning 17 soon). See? I just sort of picked it up recently, lol.

[moondaughter]

I think that it is really interesting that some people were born with the knowledge that they were witches while others stumbled upon it and became interested that way. Hmm...just gives me things to ponder.

[Avaros]

What fascinated me? I truly cannot say, I suppose I have always been a thinker, and in realization of what was placed on me (Christian Beliefs), I found it limiting, and pondered that there must be something beyond this, answers for things that were kept in the dark, so I started delving into history, events, other religions, spirituality even, yearning for answers. Through my own intuition and findings, I developed a set of beliefs for myself, that I considered logical.

More or less I found that society as well as mainstream religion places alot of limits and restrictions, so I actively sought out why, and found myself answers for how things came to be. You could say I became interested, because I was restless. "Because that is how it is" was never a good enough reason for me.

[wolfsbane00010]

I suppose I got interested when I was 12, I'm 14 almost 15 now. MY parents are old hippies, so there was always a mystic side to our family. I just got into it officially around that time. I just was looking up some stuff and found a site involving love spells, I just thought that maybe there was more than cheesy love spells and using hippie intuition, found paganism. Now I am a content Helenistic Pagan who is coming out of the broom closet with my family and have never been happier.