Witchcraft and Sorcery are both found in that mysterious space between a person and his or her familiar spirit. It is found in that strange place between the witch or sorcerer and their spiritual allies, those powers that they turn to when they invoke and conjure. What makes a person "that sort" of person? A person who is open to the mysterious spaces of the Otherworld, and capable of being a "witch" or "sorcerer"?
I don't know. It's not possible to define it; it is a quality that some people have, a strange mystical quirk, and which others don't have and likely never will develop. Many modern traditions of Witchcraft believe that humans were given a mystical gift by the Witchfather or Master, or by ancient Daimon-spirits of light and fire that descended from the heavens. These mythical ideas help to explain why some people are mystically inclined and others are not; the sleeping seed-pneuma of the Bright Master snakes through human bloodlines and awakens in some people at different times.
That's just a story, one common pattern of belief which can be traced back as far as the Book of Enoch. I think it has much merit. But for straight answers, you won't find any on "the crooked path". I don't know what made me attracted to and obsessed with the occult and witchcraft. It was Fate; some would say that I was a scion of the house of Azael, others would think I was just a kook. I myself don't know, and I don't think I need to know.
I do know that for these weird types of people, witchcraft is found between them and their otherworldly contacts, but in other places too- in primordial symbolism that is native to our deep minds and inherited from generation to generation, stretching back to the beginning. It is in sleeping "spiritual forms" native to the land upon which they live and their own minds and bodies.
And it is found, in final analysis, in the practitioners themselves- in the people who unconsciously pass on customs and traditions of great antiquity that have hidden numinous power, in those who recognize these things, regenerate them, and share them, and in those who have tradition "handed down" to them.
