How do you spot a witch?

you cannot spot a witch, they are the same as everyone else.

A Real Witch's Answer

Being a witch is pretty much such an intrinsic part of your being it is very hard say "this" or "that" is how to know.

I have known many people who have come to witchcraft at various points in their lives. Some were born into a family tradition, and learned their craft at their mother's knee. Some of these people continued to practice, some moved on to other spiritual paths.

Others chose their spiritual path in their teens and twenties (some in their thirties and forties). They studied, and learned, found others of like mind or searched for a teacher (or "coven"), but they continued their learning throughout their lives.

I have even met several people who upon meeting a witch and frankly and openly talking with them have realized, they share so many of the same beliefs, ethics and concerns that they have been "witches" all their lives.

Contrary to what you may have read in fiction or seen in movies or on the TV, those of us who practice do not have smoke or flames shooting from our fingers, nor do we all wear a "uniform" look of clothing or jewelry.

Silly rituals aimed at the revelation of "theatrical" or "cinematic" effects are neither worthwhile nor very accurate.

We are more of less like everyone else... we just practice magic... and for the record, Magic is simply the manipulation of naturally occurring powers by the hand and will of an ethical practitioner.

It is difficult to spot a witch in public. We do not have a uniform, a required piece of jewelry, a secret hand-shake, a common hair-style or a sign on us.

It would also be inadvisable to assume from any outward clue that the person you are looking at is in fact a witch.

Just to confuse things further, not all practitioners of magic and/or witchcraft call or consider themselves witches. And not all witches follow the Wiccan spiritual path.

My best advice is to ask...