Cunning craft vs. Witchcraft

I'm not much into esoterica as some would like to believe. It is simply too rooted in a medley of fashionable attempts to push the boundaries of religious taboo and I'm obviously not god-fearing enough to see any challenge in it. While its artifacts are a hodge-podge of medieval manuscripts scavenged from the remote reaches of forgotten monastic archives, their information is purely interpretive, bent on bringing anything that mystifies them into their own superstitious perspective. This is plain to see in its interpretations of ancient Middle-Eastern and Judaic mysticism, for example; John Dee's Enochian magic. That, along with Greco-Egyptian alchemy and a host of geomantic spins on cosmic order, scarcely scratch the surface of causality in present day terms. This is why I prefer to avoid such psychobabble as it seems more a subterfuge for those who just can't handle higher reasoning.

Hence my work with causality is actually an applied science using whatever faculties happen to be at my disposal in whatever time and place. As far as the German mentality is concerned, it's all mind over matter, regardless whether you write a sonnet, dig a garden, build or repair something or form a gathering; its an empowerment of will into physical result. In all my travels and wilderness experience, I learned that communication with others is not just on the verbal level. There are subtler aspects of the senses that also communicate, although with most people, quite unconsciously. This is where I've employed shape-shifting, invisibility, and other forms of telepathic hypnosis. By the same reasoning, you can ward people and animals off, influence their moods or even their dreams. This sense of causality is by no means linear, rather like a spider on a huge web, senses every motion and disturbance coming one's way; after all, everything is relative. I could go on and on, but this is generally how cunning craft works. The best part is that it requires little in the way of conjuring, let alone summoning things better left undisturbed.