Other Important Notes:

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One should be aware that there are a lot of other claimed alternative titles for Warlock and Witch and they are all false. In fact, they seldom if ever cite their sources when the facts contradict their claims. In any case we can proceed from isolating the most common claimed alternatives and demonstrate why they are indeed false as well. Much of it comes out of traditions not aware of the sources and the original context of such things. In any case we will keep them to the point and specific for simple reference.

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1. Wizard: From Wysar. Derived Latin ‘viser’ as in adviser (to view/to see implying a sense of clarity of mind as in wise one). The Source is Promptorium Parvulorum: Bilingual English to Latin dictionary (“Storehouse for children”) completed around 1440 CE. Other spellings included wyser, wizer, weser, wysard, wysarde, wyseard, wisard, wyssard, wissard, wiseard, vizard, and wizzard.  It came to be used as a term for a philosopher or sage and later replaced by the word scientist.

2. Witan: From Witegan (means Witness when reduced to Witnas and Wednes). The Source is The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church by Ælfric of Eynsham; 955-1010 CE. Other Spellings included  wītega, wītga, witna, widnes, wednes, witnes, wītiga, witiȝe, witege, witega, witegæ, witeȝe, witeȝa, witeȝæ, witigan, witeȝan, witien, witiȝe, witȝin, witeies, witege, witegene, witegena, and witegane. The term witangemot, contrary to later nonsense, meant a meeting of witnesses, especially in a court and akin to the later concept of a jury of peers.

3. Shaman: Saman, from sama- (same) Dutch saman, to German schamane and Russian Shaman. It is the source of the identifier used by those who came to call themselves the Sami because the meaning is “same.”  It is a well established fact that beyond a few superficial trappings, everything else associated with so called Shamanism is based upon outright fraud, misrepresentation and shoddy scholarship as an invented "universal" religion. The imagery was inspired by a wood cut by Nicolaes Witsen, a Dutch Explorer who encountered people still practicing old traditions in Siberia and surrounding regions in 1692, which he made a woodcut image of, and called a man dressed in animal hides, bear claws and wearing antlers “the same priest of the Devil.” It featured conical tents in the background, a little dog leaping around the man playfully, while he holds a drum stick and playing a ceremonial drum.

4. Mage/Magic/Magi/Magician: It does not mean things like Power or Might. Its from Persian Magus (Magoosh) meaning Servant in the sense of being humble and not in a slavery sense. It later becomes almost exclusively associated with Zoroastrianism despite predating it but all ultimately later Greek and Roman Latin reinterpretations. 

5. Spae: Its not a female based term or an alternative to Witch. Spae is from spä (spy). Later it became spie giving way to the p[resent form spy meaning more or less “watch, look at, observe." It is derived fro  Latin specular; short form spec. Spacræft (spy craft) was simply considered a cowardly practice because it did not involve directly facing and challenging a rival, and also regarded as an act of treason just as it is now.  A male spy was called spaehan from older spakan more or less “he-spy.” A female spy was called Spaehona from the older spakona more or less a "she-spy. " That is all there is to the meaning.

6. Völva: Völva is a false and fairly modern invention from the word Volva in Latin meaning Roll Up as in revolve and is not Norse or Icelandic as has often been claimed. Adding the hyphens is just an example of psychological manipulation to make somethinh look more authentic when its not. Its first known usage in relation to women associated with spinning occurs in the Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia published of 1753 after its initial 2 volume publications in 1728. So its not Old Norse or Icelandic.

7. Sorcerer: From Old Latin Sors-(separate) becoming sort. The feminine is sorceress. Simply put the original meaning was a person who sorted out/separated lots as in stones used to count votes.  Methods included voters putting their hands and arms in two jars representing yes or no for a vote and keeping it hidden which hand they placed a stone handed to them. The other method was taking a stone like a lottery more or less (notice lottery means a "lot") where names would be written on stones , placed in ajar that would be rotated with a stick after shaken up, and the name that popped out first was considered to be a winner or "chosen one" for whatever the purpose was.

8. Witch Doctor: Witch Doctor actually an intentional insult. It is sometimes claimed to be a counterpart to Witch and alternative to Warlock. This is entirely false. It was originally a term for fake doctors and those initiating Witch Hunts and Heresy Hunters as a condemnation of such things. The source of this term was Francis Hutchinson, a Bishop, who coined the term in his work ‘An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft,’ published in 1718. Unfortunately it was also mostly in his writings at that time that we also see the over generalizations being imposed and applied as well with little to no care in meaning or context or source of the words themselves. However, he kept the genders at least relatively intact. ​

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What Druwayu isn't:

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Druwayu is not "pagan, heathen, mystical or occult." Neither am I a pagan, heathen, mystic or occultist. If some claim I am they are lying to themselves and to you. I reject and have always rejected such things but have used the words in acts of mockery before which is not the same as identifying as or with such. Only the profoundly stupid make such conclusions. In fact, such associations are rejected for many reasons but the main one is false definitions and historical nonsense that comes out of these circles. Furthermore it is not based in any of them even if some of these identities have drawn from similar sources or their own invented content. To clarify why these are rejected is as follows:

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1. Pagan means bound one. It is from Latin Pagus (bound one) akin to peg, from pag (bound/placed/fixed). Occurs also I the word ‘page used as a term to mean a servant and also a slave (a.k.a. one in bondage).  It does not mean country dweller at all. Calling oneself a pagan is along the same lines as calling oneself a bound servant as in a slave.

2. Heathen simply means one from a Heath. A heath is shrub land with poor quality soil and came to be used pejoratively to also mean a poor quality person. It was also applied to semi nomadic people that followed herds like caribou that would migrate during the warmer seasons to such heaths and birth their young before migrating again for the shelter of old pine forests and mountain ranges rather than open plains and pastures. Calling oneself a heathen is like claiming to be a shrub.

3. Mystical is used to mean "unknown" when in actuality it means "unspoken" in the sense of mute. In fact its actually derived from the same roots in Greek. This is the basis for it being used in the context of "secrecy" and why many such mystical occultists use the hush finger gesture as a visual reference to that and they basis behind required "levels of initiation" for all sorts of silly nonsense. We don't have such "initiations." We teach who want to learn or leave it alone.

4. Occult means hidden from sight. Its in fact a combination of 'oc' meaning "see/sight" and as in  celare "conceal/hidden" in Latin and oc is the root of oculus often used in a sense of eye hut also in the sense of opening (especially in a roof that allowed light to enter a room to make everything visible). We do not hide anything from anyone or use something else as a cover and pretend to be one thing while being something else which is the the tendency of all occult orders and movements. Its not an alternative of mystical which is why sold fraternities often called themselves the "mystical and occult order of whatever."

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We do not Parody other Regions:

A parody religion is created with superficial intentions to mock, insult and even exaggerate the religious and  spiritual convictions of others. We may engage openly is self parody, as we do from time to time and may parody various stereotypes. However, we do not target those outside of Druwayu because it is often over done and far too often just another boring and childish passing fad.  

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• The reason is as we view it is it is indeed no different than the same nonsense persecuting other religious groups during events like the Inquisition, various heresy hysterics in Europe and Colonial America and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (which hasn't entirely gone away).

• Those claiming its not the same are viewed as being deceived and/or being deceitful with themselves and other for the same claims of some sort of moral or ethical high ground while engaging in similar activities are disavowed.

• It is the same sort of claimed ethical and moral high ground that was an is the claim of all who engage in such persecutions with the same core motivations; to denounce and invalidate the views, opinions and beliefs of others with whom you do not agree and promoting hostility that leads to violence inevitably. 

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Druans, nor the Drusidu, will engage in or tolerate the rhetoric of social-political correctness or other imposed culture. Just as Druwayu is not imposed upon others we will not allow Druwayu to be imposed upon and will speak and express ourselves as we choose to do so in accordance with our own autonomous self determination. In other words, we do not have to and will not be forced to conform because of some movement demands it. This is also in line with Druwayu by being True to Ourselves.

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We embrace Personal Expression to a point

Literary, artistic, theological and philosophical interpretations of Druwayu is embraced and encouraged among all who embrace Druwayu itself and can maintain the basic awareness and act that Druwayu is not "whatever" you want it to be, and not a haphazardly thrown together tradition and that such personal expressions do not fall off into the realm of nonsense and intentional abnormality. 

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Druwayu is not Ethnocentric

Unlike too many other things to count, Druwayu is not a ethnocentric separatist identity or movement. We welcome anyone and everyone regardless what their skin pigment happens to be or what country they originated from. Furthermore we do not advocate or support the nonsense of equating language to race or Nationalism (pride in one's nation) as synonymous with racism. If that is what one is seeking here or from Druwayu they can move on.

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Terms we do not use

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Some of the most commonly used terms associated with Warlocks and Witches falsely and mostly from those who follow things spun out of the Occult movements of the early to mod 1900s we do not use. In fact, where some of them are really derived is not very honorable, some of it is just nonsense and some of it is funny.  That said, the main ones to note are:

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1. No Sabbaths:  The word comes from the Hebrew Sabbat pronounced Shab-bot.  It is a culturally specific observation from Judaism as well as Early Christianity that hadn’t complete slit off from its Jewish roots as an end of the week observance, modern Saturday, with the base meaning “day of rest.” The term of the so called “Witches Sabbath” doesn’t actually show up till after 1613.

2. No Black Mass: The first complete depiction of a perversion and parody of the Catholic Mass as the “Black Mass.” was given in Florimond de Raemond's 1597 French work, The Antichrist (written as a Catholic response to the Protestant claim that the Pope was the Antichrist).

3. No Esbats: Es-bat meaning literally “to beat.” It comes ultimately from Latin a- (ad ‘to, at’) + batre ‘beat’ (battere, battuere ‘beat’) as abate, and Modern French ébat. It’s a tongue in cheek reference to masturbation, hence the intentional misleading claims of it meaning “to frolic and amuse oneself (play with oneself), and a diversion.”

4. No Covens: The word coven is from the 1200s (CE) source forms of covent, cuvent, and means  an "association or community of persons devoted to religious life," from Anglo-French covent, from Old French convent, covent "monastery, religious community," from Latin conventus "assembly," used in Medieval Latin for "religious house," from which convent and convention as terms are also derived.  It is not until the early 1609 by way of the work called the Masque of Queenes (literally meaning Mask of Queens) that any association with any Warlocks and Witches starts being applied or implied.

5. No Grimoires: Not at least in the sense of claim of being a book of “magic” and all that nonsense. The fact is the word Grimoire is French and means Grammar Book as a text book for learning proper Latin, as well as such things as Greek and Hebrew. The only “Spells” were literally the spellings and pronunciation and meaning of said words. Naturally such also contained theological and philosophical references. It was from Occultist sources that the term Book of Shadows was coined which originally referred to practices in India reading omens from shadows produced by smoke and heat vapors on walls. Furthermore, those who were accused of being Warlocks and Witches were often illiterate and poor farm people so would not have had such things in the first place because they wouldn't have been able to read them anyways. ​

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Short History of some of the False Information Sources and ongoing Lies:

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Its a known fact that people like Gerald Gardner and his groupies more or less were all occultists or or less plagiarizing one another. Gardner created his Bricket Wood Coven in Bricket Wood, England after he met up with a group of low level Rosicrucian who previous got together and predominately a group of women that gathered in New Forest, England based on its old previous folklore and history using the Occultism of the time and New Age Movement that was rampant all over Europe in the 1910s-1930s.

1. They were basing their cult on the claims of Margaret Murray's books such as "The God of the Witches" published in 1917 which pulled the whole Horned God bit as a deity of paleolithic times to the medieval period with the link to more or less any and all figures with horned headdresses, and then "The Witch Cult of Western Europe" published in 1921 which pulled the whole Moon Goddess bit which made claims of associations with the cult of Diana s "Western Europe."

2. ​Lewis Spence is one of the main sources also of some shoddy scholarship who applied the false claim in his 1920 book "An An Encyclopedia of Occultism" Old English wicca (masculine), wicce (feminine), wiccian (verb)” and yet its clear that is completely false.

3. He chose to ignore the actual language sources in his fabrications like many others also engaging in similar nonsense but also became the basis behind Gardner's blind acceptance and assumptions showing he was not all that concerned with better research but its also from such claims as Lewis Spence that the OED simply added it without fact checking and which other dictionaries blindly absorb and redistribute as if its an established fact despite clear rules of linguistics and etymology have been violated to impose such trash.

4. These were "suggested reading" for Gardner as it was these who more or less gathered around him early on because of his occult interests and other claims and especially since he started having an affair with one of the female cult members. He had also already been involved with more infamous occultists like Aleister Crowley who "initiated" him into his cult concepts such as Thelema and gave him the "Book of the Law" which was lifted whole clothe by Gardner into his mishmash occultism.

5. Also contrary to modern feminist extremists and gender neutral whatever crap claims, B.S. claims, he and his cult did also use the title Warlock and imposed a concept of reincarnation use to invent a myth that he and his "secret female lover" were being reborn through time and gender swapping through the ages to further fuel their own delusional justifications and all that despite the known fact that Aleister Crowley had his own bias against anyone referring to themselves either a Warlock or a Witch, not that it matters that much considering the hack and shock fiend he really was playing off the ignorance of others even by his own admissions.    

6. ​About the 1960s one of his fem-groupies named Doreen Valiente was the more critical and outspoken against Gardner and eventually sought to "purge" the cult of Gardner's and his male participants influences more or less circling back to the cult created by the former Rosicrucian female cult members in the 1960s and was even interviewed once on camera claiming the "reason her Goddess Diana" didn't show herself was because the deity was "shy." Sane people recognized the BS but most have sought to suppress that fact.

7. She went on to push more feminist ideas and also invented the whole concept of Warlock being a Scottish word for men "of the craft" and Witch was an English word for women "of the craft" more or less never citing the source o her claims. it was also she who got to re-write most of the claims about the etymology in the OED where she continued to impose the false pejoratives on the male titles while claiming the same treatment of the word Witch was unjustified. In other words she was imposing her own sexist feminist rhetoric that paved the way for more bullshit later. 

8. ​Extremist feminists like nothing more than to impose their nonsense into everything they touch and far to many have turned towards spineless cowardice to challenge the babbling nonsense that frankly was not a reality of concept till such started further inserting themselves into such subject as these in the 1970s was particularly true that in the 1970s some more extremist anti-male misandrist feminists formed their own "lesbian witch cults."

9. Knowing full damn well it was a female title and word and counterpart to Warlock, it also absorbed into the occultism and psychological manipulation being pushed through various college campuses of the time that it also derived and mixed the occultism with early extremist feminist Marxist socialists who called themselves "W.I.T.C.H." in 1968 which is the primary source of the largely fictional "anti-female patriarchy" and modern culture war and the so called "war of the sexes" that was even mocked in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

10. Some also used the charges for engaging in various fortune telling practices without a license as a claim of violation of religious rights and freedoms and used the civil rights movement of the time to push it further among the predominate gay and lesbian communities though later gays were angered because it was directed to intentionally recruit more lesbians and bisexual women into such cults which left many disenfranchised but that's how scams work. This occurred mostly in New York and California.

11. In Salem Massachusetts chose to slightly lighten up but only a little and instead added the contingency they would allow men in only if they were homosexuals and they had to adopt feminine names and titles and devote themselves completely to their "female deity" (usually Dianna) based off the crap claims of Margaret Murry that was claimed to be "embodied" in the "High Priestess."

12. Still kept as largely exclusive little cults with some of the more extreme ones around Satanism and Aliens and various other so called Christian and other Mystical sects, and fr more openly racist movements pretending to be about "racial equality" when in reality its always been the same separatist bullshit and delusions that has always been used to divide, control and brainwash people in such a way as to cause them to brainwash themselves, the 1980s "Satanic Panic" was created by the same who used Mainstream Media to get more attention on  the occult insanity.

13. Then playing into the same game of controlled opposition, they used it to promote themselves and reintroduce the insanity pushing more extreme feminist crap with pretty songs and convenient lies playing the victims persecution crap while themselves actually doing the persecutions, but didn't get their full wider range imposed garbage till the more directly perpetuated bullshit under the New Age movement of the late 1980s and early part of the 1990s was able to take some hold and then used the internet of the 1990s to spread it wider and further.

14. Its been further distorted ever since and funneled through mainstream media outlets, especially those out of New York and California in every genre. And that's just one part of it and all the sickness involved which has also come into include the perpetuation of a female deity as the primary entity as the main focus of all these fronts associated with turn men into women and women into men and turning them against one another and encouraging acts of self mutilation and a known history of being among such deities that have a long and sick history of demands for infanticide and human sacrifice of one's own people and children. Sorry, but we cannot get behind all that crap with is another reason why Druwayu is very different and does not draw off of such ugly and deplorable constructs that are hardly worth pretending are "redeemable."

15. As for those that get pissy over the use of the title Warlock who derive al their crapola ultimately from such as Gerald Gardern and one of his many groupies that eventually ran off to do their own thing and started gripping about everything and then girlified it and imposed misandrist feminist bullshit in the mix, the so called "Book of Shadows" Gardner invented as a "term" used Warlock in reference to a man who performed "ritual binding" which basically was bondage style kink fetishism pretending to be "necessary" ritual as it drew from Freemasonry's initiation rites, sword and all, but of course had everyone do that in the nude and did actually recommend sex rituals drawn heavily from Crowley's own perversions. ​

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​As such one can see most clearly the abundant hypocrisy we see in modern times is not that modern, certainly hasn't diminished and the only ones pushing back on these facts are childish drones stuck in their own fantasy loops and play acting while turning such fraud and foolishness into some sort of money grab and regurgitating the same lies over and over again on all sides.