So whats the mechanism for idols of mary to cry olive oil.
I don't consider images of the Blessed Virgin mother of God to be idols*.
As for claims that statues of the saints crying olive oil or similar, I'm simply skeptical of supernatural claims. To be clear, I believe in miracles, I believe God can do what God wants to do--but I am under no compulsion to accept any/all claims of the supernatural.
*Disclaimer: I am uncomfortable with the hyperdulia given to Mary as practiced by Rome; following the Lutheran Confessions I think certain practices should be avoided, which is why I do not ask the blessed and departed saints to pray for me; instead I trust the Scriptures which say that the saints and angels in heaven pray for us; such is the blessed Communion of Saints of which the Faithful, both on earth and in heaven, united together in Christ as the one Body, are united in a bond of holy and Christian love. But to claim that icons are idols is mere Iconoclasm, a heresy that was correctly rejected at the Second Council of Nicea because it was a perversion influenced by Islam and is innately anti-Christian as it is anti-Incarnation. If one is genuine interested in this subject, I would encourage a thorough study of Church History, especially the Christological debates of the First Millennium.
Secondly, from your pov, does witchcraft even exist?
In the same sense that Islam and Buddhism exist.
But first we would need to make a distinction between what Scripture is talking about which often gets translated as "witchcraft", and ideas about witchcraft which emerged in the modern period after the publication of the Malleus Malificarum at the end of the 14th century.
The Bible talks about pagan superstitions and pagan practices, such as divination; it also talks about those who consort with spirits (such as the necromancer which King Saul met in secret in order to try and speak with the departed Prophet Samuel). In the Greek of the New Testament we encounter the word pharmakeia, which is related to pharmakon, medicine and pharmakos, one who practices medicine. When the New Testament uses this word in a negative sense, it is likely referring to those who create drugs or poisons, specifically of the sort that would be imbibed in a ritualistic way as part of some Pagan practice. Not unlike how in many indigenous cultures around the world, even today, certain compounds are drank or smoked as part of a spiritual practice, to commune with one's ancestors, or with nature, or bring one visions, etc. The New Testament condemns this practice, as it does all Pagan practices, because it is a false spirituality.
The modern idea of witchcraft, which emerged in the modern West, and is rooted in
Pagan beliefs about witches, no that doesn't exist. There aren't people hiding in the forest who have mystical powers to cause crops to wither, or cause disease.
And adding to this, there is the contemporary version of "witchcraft" associated with various Pagan revival movements of the 20th century, which is largely based on a misunderstanding of medieval history and a post-Enlightenment ignorance about what the middle ages were actually like; such as the myth of the "burning times". For example the religion of Wicca was invented in the mid 20th century by a guy who claimed to have secret knowledge of pagan practices which survived in Europe--he made it all up. Nevertheless, many Neo-Pagans call themselves "witches" and their various rituals and pagan practices "magick" or "witchcraft". I would consider it simply false religion, no different than any other false religion--Islam, Buddhism, etc.
I no more think a contemporary self-described "witch" has some kind of special power than I think that Buddhists are on their way to attaining liberation from samsara--I don't believe in samsara, the cycle of rebirth; I don't believe that buddhahood is real, so I consider Buddhism to simply be a religion that lacks the quality of being true; in contrast to Christianity which is based upon the truth of the Crucified and Risen Messiah--Jesus, the only-begotten Son of God, our Lord.
-CryptoLutheran
