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The reason people think you can tell a witch by looking is because of the typical caricature with the hooked nose, pointed hat, olive skin, black eyes, and stringy/curly black hair, which are all based on stereotypes about Jewish people’s appearances + the ‘Judenhut’ which was a pointed hat worn by Jews in medieval times, when we were being burnt at the stake (along with accused witches) for being Jewish. Pagan religions are a minority, with about a million practitioners in the United States and about 3 million worldwide, although numbers are hard to determine; many Pagans remain closeted due to misconceptions perpetuated in the media and ongoing discrimination. It strikes a dissonant chord with outsiders for all kinds of reasons: Because of the association with death, because you shouldn’t do that to the poor animals, because Jesus died to make blood sacrifice unnecessary, whatever. Character or characters inherit or find spellbook and discover they’re Witches. Now, it may be that a Witch would have a really good reason to contact an entity from this cosmology, and there are traditions that mix and match pantheons.
I just want our voices to be heard and our lives to be represented, same as anyone. It’s also true that most of us see it as important to all, and women especially, to reclaim sex and beauty as the powerful expressions of self that they are for many and dispense with messages we may have absorbed that sex is wrong, dirty, or otherwise a bad thing. That’s fine with me. Same with demons and angels. We don’t run in the same circles.
When Witches and Magic appear in fiction, they almost always succumb to clichés . Please stop.
Game. Books and movies and TV shows present it in the most sensational way possible. I think you’re a little hard on Charmed, not that it is a good portrayal of witches, but because it is lowest-common-denominator television. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. To me, it’s lazy writing and betrays a lack of knowledge as well as a lack of pursuing knowledge. If intent falters, the energy dissipates. Whatever the case, we've got you fully covered in the naming department. Avatar: The Last Airbender was a show that was loved by many. It’s the spiritual and magical equivalent of rape. A love spell going wrong is a common trope all by itself.
It is always performed by someone trained to do it, for specific reasons.
In that respect, it makes about as much sense to assume an untrained magic user is a danger as it does to assume an untrained yoga practitioner is. Cool and collected in the face of danger, honorable to no end, Jack embodies every aspect of the noble samurai. Share Share Tweet Email. With her affinity for plants, she makes for an ideal druid. I think a lot of this is due to the fact that the Pagan world view is so different from that of other dominant religions at this point in history. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. Choose the human race, the Sorcerer class with your arcane origin being Storm Sorcery. Her powers over the mind and the seeds she planted in Tony Stark nearly tore the superheroes apart. If I see another drawing of a teen witch in a mini skirt flipped up to reveal her panties, my head is going to explode.
It’s “just the way the world works.” When you operate under that assumption, you have no reason to ask the questions that will lead you deeper. So when I read about some witches summoning any of these entities, my first question is always, “Why?” Because they’re ignorant and happened on a spell? So it’s no wonder many actual Witches and Pagans would want to dress as unobtrusively as possible. ( Log Out / The main character (a witch) stops it, because it is done by people who have no idea what they are doing.
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