@Aisling "I know, and I don't want to keep you from believing..." Ioan said via telepathy. "It's just my point of view. I don't believe in any god, but I know that religious beliefs have got something to do with your own experience. That's why I say that as long as you don't harm others with it, you can believe in whatever you want to. It's just that this whole 'God and devil' thing has done so much harm to me... they burned me alive because they thought I've turned away from God and made a pact with the devil... the Bible says that witches and wizards shall not live. That's why I never truly believed in it, and neither did my father...
And that a book might not tell you the truth about magic doesn't mean that it's useless. There are plenty of people who believe in this Wiccan thing, and reading a book on it can help you to understand them, like knowledge about every kind of belief can. For example, why is it important for Muslims to pray five times a day? Why do some Christians say that homosexuality is unnatural? Why don't Hindus eat beef? Why is meditation so important to Buddhists? And why are Wiccans so much into nature?"