Sorceress, witches, black magic, witches' pets, and witchcraft: all these words pertain to the dark side and it is apparent that what people know about these things is very simple and is based on hearsay. There are a lot of unanswered questions that we can help answering by simply defining the real deal.
Etymology
First, what is a witch? People think of witches as old hags with long, wiry, gray hair. They are always portrayed in Halloween costumes as crones with broomsticks. Witch, in reality, came from the Anglo-Saxon word "wicce" which means wise. This word can be further traced into the Indo-European word which means to bend through magic or to make an object wiggle or wicker. An Old Norse word called vitki means wizard and can also be traced to a word which means wise seer. Male witches are called warlocks. However, this is rarely used. Other words that we know of that may be associated to witch is heathen, or dweller of the heath, and pagan, which means country dweller. These words refer to native people who worship nature in various forms.
In our world today, a witch is a woman who practices a religion focused on nature and healing. They honor the divinity of females instead of the male Christian God. Today, witchcraft may be summed in several practices such as the practice of magic, incantations, spells, potions, singing and dancing, creative mythology, herbalism, rituals, fortune telling, and divination.
Prayer
The second question that comes to mind is if witches pray. Well, it is safe to say that some witches pray but most of them do not. Witches have deities of their choice and many of these witches invoke these deities if they need guidance or power. Some witches meditate and empower themselves through these activities.
And who are these deities, you may ask. You will get practically hundreds of answers since witchcraft is involved with the worship of hundreds of beings found in nature including those that are not present in the world. Accordingly, there is a transcendental deity that witches consider to be the supreme of all deities. The problem is, this supreme deity is very far beyond what the human mind can comprehend and experience, this is why the worship is broken down into smaller pieces or parts-the minority of deities. For example, there is a Supreme deity called the Goddess. The issues is that this goddess is unreachable and as a result, she has been broken down in several names and forms such as Diana, Athena, Hecate, Brigantia, Amaterasu, Ishtar, and so on.
Conclusion
Are witches Satanists? The answer is no. This is precisely because you have to believe in Satan to become one. Witches do not believe in the existence of Satan or heaven and hell as Christians do. The Horned God of witches is not evil and not good. This Horned God is the source of energy of nature. In Christianity, the goat-hoofed and horned god is Pan, the god of Music and the symbol for Satan, which is a deliberate corruption of how Lucifer actually looks like.
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