title: Witchcraft: Exploring the World of Wicca
author:  Craig S. Hawkins 
description: Craig S. Hawkins teaches apologetics at Simon Greenleaf University in Anaheim, California.
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  > **Warlock of the Witch World**
  
  >  **A Witch World novel by Andre Norton**
  
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   **I**
  
  IT HAS BEEN an oft-told story of our birthing that our mother, the Lady
  Jaelithe (she who put aside her witchhood in Estcarp to wed the outland
  warrior, Simon Tregarth), did demand of some Power she served certain gifts
  for us, whom she bore in great and painful travail. That she named my brother
  Kyllan, warrior, my sister Kaththea, witch (or one to control powers), and
  asked for me, wisdom. But it has been that my wisdom consists in knowing that
  I know very little, though the thirst for learning has ever been in me. Only,
  in spite of all my striving, I have done no more than nibble at the edges of
  knowledge’s rich cake, liplicked the goblet rim of true wisdom. But perhaps to
  know one’s limitations is, in itself, a kind of sagecraft.
  
  In the beginning, when we were children, I did not lack fellowship, for we
  three, b