![]() In fairness to them, they are drawing on published books, albeit ones that have been overtaken by more recent work. The spells, the shows, and the signs are pretending to a history that could be described charitably as misunderstood, uncharitably as utter rubbish. It’s an odd image to choose to empower young women. The writers probably mean the Salem witches, though, which means they are mathematically challenged. Yes, except that unless they were descended from German or French immigrants, they were actually descended from the witches that hadn’t been hanged. “We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn,” read a sign at the 2017 Women’s March. ![]() Which all sounds like a lovely extended Halloween party. The witches of 2018 are galvanised and political, says the London Times. The autumn 2018 television schedule was also full of witches, from pseudo-historical A Discovery of Witches to remakes of Charmed and Netflix’s reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a feminist who hexes her headmaster with a plague of spiders when he refuses to act on the bullying of her non-binary best friend. These rituals are said to help self-identified witches process trauma, anger, and grief. This is just one of the many quasi-religious rituals circulating on the internet in the wake of Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
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