text: kids wanting to dabble in witchcraft? watch yourself.  you may get seriously burned.  pick up a bible and read it.  there's valuable information in there to last you a lifetime, even if you adhere to some and discard the rest.  play at wicca if you must, but stay away from witchcraft.  these are my thoughts alone and are not intended to offend anyone non-christian. i will treat this as the question you asked. there are several ways that children can be introduced to witchcraft. when i encounter interested young people, i tend to direct them to the tarot unless i think they are capable of learning more rapidly.   i know what you are thinking: "what does a byzantine card game played between devout christians and muslims in the time of the crusades have to do with witchcraft?" well it was turned into a simple and easy to use divinatory system by a e waite.   poetry is another good way to introduce young people into the occult. the poet william butler yeats was a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and has written extensively on the occult.   another good way for children to get into witchcraft is for them to study the bible. infact, more pagans come from homes that hold to a strict and rigid interpretation of the bible than come from any other source. even for non christian households, playing with the bible can be a fun diversion.   if they aren't interested in studying scripture, perhaps they should learn by example. (i don't advise this, the early christian demon summonings could be a little much for some children.) the early christians practiced several forms of magic including the following:   http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/magic/agg.display.html   included in there are love spells that torture the subject until they give in to the intent of the spell. many of the details are missing, but a careful study of history can fill in those details.   alchemy was a more accepted form of witchcraft that holds true to more traditional christian values. famous alchemists such as sir newton, and n flamel helped us to bring alchemy into a form of science, but it has still shaped modern western magic more than any other single magical endeavor.   finally, in the 1950s wicca came about. it has been popular with young and old people alike who are interested in learning about the supernatural. it has some of the same values that christians do, but it tends to be more free about them.   wicca developed out of cerimonial witchcrft such as that practiced by the golden dawn. it did not come before christianity as was once claimed, but it does draw from spiritual paths arround the world that are far older than christianity.