When you think of a witch, what do you picture? Maybe you imagine cool teenage girls like in Sabrina or The Craft or a sisterhood like in Practical Magic. Or do you see bubbling cauldrons and toads ...

If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, riding broomsticks and wickedly cackling over cauldrons. Unsurprisingly, ...

Cauldrons filled with mysterious potions, disappearing animals, and crotchety old women sporting comically sharp, black hats — that's how witchcraft is usually represented, commercially at least.

Witchcraft has had a bad rep for centuries – unflattering depictions of witches, stereotyping by linking witches to Satan/all things evil with the world, and deadly witch trials. Its portrayal has ...

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