Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise

Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise

By Orion on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 5:28pm |

Cynical people look to the occult.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/witchcraft-juliet-diaz/605518/

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This part of the article really surprised me:

Good luck tracing the history of witches. While the idea of witches is exceptionally old—Horace’s Satires, already embracing the negative stereotype circa 35 b.c., describes witches with wigs and false teeth howling over dead animals—the day-to-day business of being a witch has continuously evolved, which complicates attempts to reconstruct a tidy family tree. The history of witchcraft has also long suffered from unreliable narrators. The Salem witch trials loom outsize in the American imagination, yet no official court records exist, and the accounts of the trials that did survive are, per the historian Stacy Schiff, “maddeningly inconsistent.”

by Orion on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 5:38pm

Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise

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