The most desirable way to celebrate it is in the nude ("skyclad"), and outdoors where the ceremony is closest to nature, attended by the 13 members of the coven plus the invited guests.

- An imaginary circle, is drawn around the coven with a ritualistic dagger ("athame").

- Candles are lit, and incense is burned in the altar.

- Witches intone: "Queen of heaven, Queen of hell, Hornet hunter of the night, Lend your power unto the spell, Work my will by magic rite".

- The High Priestess, gives to the High Priest the Fivefold Kiss: On the feet, knees, penis, breast, and lips.

- Satan asks each member: What damage have you done until today?... and each one answers.

- The "initiates", renounce to their Christian believes, stepping on a cross or spiting on a Bible, and make a contract with Satan, to serve and adore him; they are baptized by Satan, and permanently "marked" with the pentagram on the arm or genitals.

- Then the "spells" are made: To burn a home, or injure someone... or healing by the laying on of hands. Love spells can be cast upon reluctant suitors. Spirits are called. Animals are sacrificed...

... Most respectable witches deny sacrifice of animals, but there have been reports of children sacrifices, with cannibalism, eating their flesh and blood to mimic the Eucharist.

- The High Priestess forms the invoking "pentagram of fire" on each member touching the throat, left hip, right breast, left breast, right hip, and throat again... making prayers like this: "Deep calls on height, the Goddess on the God. In her name do I invoke thee, Mighty Father of us all, Lugh, Pan, Belin, Herne, Cernunnos, come in to answer my call!, Descend, I pray thee, in thy servant".

- The ceremony may end with a feast, eating and drinking around the fire and incense, with hot music, and a sex orgy: Each member having sex with any other one!... most of them under the influence of hallucinogenic herbal drugs...

- The terms "Witchcraft", "Sorcery", and "Magic" are nearly synonymous.

- "Wicca", is the same, but with special emphasis on "sexual rites".

- The "Witch Doctor", of the ancient religions is different, usually a "solo practice" of white magic, to heal the sick, but can also practice black magic.

- Witchcraft is a kind of polytheistic religion of nature and the universe, adhere to tenets of reincarnation and karma, and practice also "clairvoyance", "divination", "astral projection"...

- Witches identify themselves as "pagans", "druids", "earth or nature religion", "positive magick", "the craft", "the craft of the wise", "wisecraft", "goddess worship", "wimmin religion", "shamanism"...

It is an interesting principle of Wicca: "That ye harm none, do what ye will". It implies two aspects: First, that a witch means to seek harmony with the world, nature, and other human beings. And second, the effects of magic will be returned threefold upon the person working it, limiting severely the pronouncing of "curses", that will return threefold upon the magician... however, judging by the results, this noble principle has not been properly used in most covens in the history of witchcraft.

There are today about 300,000 witches in the USA, 15,000 in England, 60,000 in France, and it is almost universal in nonliterate societies.

The Bible condemns Witchcraft with the strongest terms, "You shall not permit a sorceress to live" (Exodus 22:18)

- In 1496, the "Malleus Maleficarum" ("The Witches' Hammer") was published by two German Dominicans, with a definitive statement that witchcraft depends on a pact with the devil.

- The principal period of persecution of witches was during the 16th and 17th centuries, when estimates ranging from 300,000 to 9 million witches were executed by hanging or burning, with both Catholics and Protestants participating on it, lead by the Inquisition.

- In America, the most famous outbreak of witch persecutions occurred at the end of this period, in 1692, at Salem, Mass., where 22 witches were hanged.

- The last trial for witchcraft in England took place in 1712, and in France in 1718.