If I led a coven (which I have no intention of doing) and a young recruit came to me I would ask,"Why do you wish to be a witch?"
Should anyone reply : "To gain power over my enemies!" I would reply to them.." Sadly, your enemies have already won!"
A disturbing report to run on Samhain.... a report on teenaged depression which indicated that students in South Trinidad admitted to performing witchcraft to have power over their enemies. I often wonder why teenagers are power obsessed..... and lament at the Hollywood perception that witches can gain power over their enemies.
I wish that such misconceptions would stop. Time perhaps...... only time.