Witches and Wizards

Of all magical creatures, wizards and witches are among the most popular.  In part this is do to the wish that people have to have magic I believe.  We want to believe in the paranormal, that there is something beyond our mundane existance that magic in fact exists.  So we create our counter parts, people that do not look diffrent from us but have extrodenary powers and abilites.  Wizards and witches haven't always been held in the same regard as now, superstion caused innocent people to be burned at the stake during the middle ages and up to the seventeen or eighteen hundreds.  Mostly these women were medicinal healers and did nothing more then use herbs and poltices to assist their neighbors.  A traditional way to insure that a woman was not a witch was to basically drown her, according to some theroys witches floated while normal people didn't.   The most famous wizards and witches come from a book series by J.R Rowling, millions of children have read Harry Potter in the years it has been out.  However there are other less well known stories about witches and wizards the series So You Want To Be A Wizard? By Dianne Duainne is one of my favorites.  I love wizards and witches and believe strongly in the possibilites of magic