While real-life witches are very different from their pop-culture stereotypes, the very idea of them still evokes images of pointy black hats, hexes, charms and witchy movies like “Hocus Pocus ...

Negative images of witches within Western society ... "Devil's magic," and 20 were condemned to execution. Yes, witches are real, and they are no different than anyone else.

Essay of the Day: The common view of witches today—that, throughout time, they have been oppressed for their opposition to patriarchy—is “utter rubbish,” Diane Purkiss argues in Athenaeum ...