The worship of witches is therefore directed towards a great Goddess. Hence, witchcraft can be specified as a theory of causation and responsibility. .
Early people who believed in witchcraft and the primitive people who still believe in it think that a person may become bewitched in different ways. The process usually takes place through some physical part of the one who is being cursed. Sometimes a witch may lay a curse on his victim by using the pairings of the victim's fingernails, a lock of his hair, or a piece of his clothing(Russell 139). In early days, people used to cut their nails and hair to keep from being bewitched. Sometimes a magic formula is used to bring punishment to the victim(Russell 140) . The witch doctor usually mutters the victim's name while he is casting his spell. Early people who were afraid of witches sometimes used false names so that their true names would not come to the attention of any witches. Witchcraft, supposedly, can be directed against crops and cattle as well as against individuals. A curse may be cast upon all the things that a man owns. Practices of witchcraft claim the powers to raise storms, t o ruin crops, to turn men into animals, and to work miracles( Russell 143). In some primitive groups, the fear of bewitchment keeps everybody on his best behavior. .
People also practiced witchcraft in the days of the early Romans, and several thousand years before that time witchcraft was practiced in Egypt. Records have been found which show that roman laws were passed to make the practice of witchcraft as a crime(Russell 144). These laws forbade people to destroy crops, pull down crosses or religious objects, dig up corpses, or make images-especially those to be used in witchcraft(Russell 145). The failure of crops might be charged to the curse of some human "devil". An innocent person of strange habits might be accused of witchcraft by enemies who held a grunge against him.