Contrary to popular belief Mekhashepha =\= Witchcraft. You can be a witch and practice Mekhashepha, you can be not a witch and practice Mekhashepha. It is not a religion, there's no contracts or covenants. In my experience it's just learning to work with the energy of things and the environment around you. Calm down. Quit demonizing your kin just because you don't understand. A lot of us are Christians no less, and are against the witch terminology.
This belief was born in the same sense that the word Melungeon is a slur was born. As Melungeon people we did not call ourselves Melungeon, we called ourselves Ridgemanites and other names denoting where we resided. We did not call out practices Mekheshepha (Machisaba), this is the OT word for a witch or a female sorceress. We were demonized as mixed race and demonized as witches and had our own dialect stripped from us, so we adopted what was given to us. Machashabah similarly is the biblical word for cunning work, or knowing how to use intentions, thought, and prayer to heal.
