What’s with this growing subculture of witch stuff? Is it like a young-women reaction to the chaos magick craze a few years back that was mostly young guys on4chan afaik? I saw that hexing-the-moon thing a while back and allusions to witch things keep floating by.
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It’s a childish pretense to get attention mostly by pretending to have “powers” coupled with traditional lowbrow beliefs in superstitions that latently exist in every time and place
Those in the thread mentioning the decline of Protestantism are also on to something IMHO
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Hmm. I think there’s some of that but there’s more going on. It’s an alternative direction to take religious instincts but not necessarily a juvenile one.
Nor is it new. "Witch" has a rich record, and it’s being reclaimed the way "bitch" was. I think it voices a female yearning for agency /belonging / power, even if only through magical thinking and from the fringes. It also connects with other forms of "performative signalling."
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