The story of WITCHES
Oct 20, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS: ANDREW SHAW.
Many of those dressing up as witches and ghouls for Halloween know little of the real history of witches. We see modern incarnations in culture as harmless, like Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch children’s books, and the trainee witches from the Harry Potter series, bungling broomstick classes, with cute familiars. We are much like the medieval Christian church, which believed witchcraft didn’t exist, and was just pagan superstition and nonsense.
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