The truth is that, as a way to sell books and paraphernalia to idiots with excess disposable income, witchcraft is part of the indelible cultural heritage of capitalism, and socialists are the ones appropriating it.
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This paragraph is particularly delicious, and echoes recent attempts to claim fandom as a uniquely woman-created and -owned hobby and community. The truth is, the witch is Gerald Gardner, the witch is Aleister Crowley, the witch is a Freemason...pic.twitter.com/EQhZd7z08m
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Yes, the witch is also Doreen Valiente, Helena Blavatsky, etc. etc. etc. But this lunatic might as well be claiming the Knights of the Round Table were Japanese...because they carried swords around.
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Gonna be a pedantic nitpicker here and point out that magic and witchcraft have been ubiquitous features of most human societies, just like religion and language.
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It's more a case of "here is something no longer present in secular modernity, that means I can project whatever I want onto it." Like deciding that pre-Christian Europeans were actually feminists, or whatever.
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Self-described modern western "witches" are part of a 'tradition' invented wholesale in the late 19th century by white dudes.
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They grafted on some Greek, Roman and Egyptian flair because that was part of the educational background of late 19th century white dudes. But there's no continuity, it's all fanfic.
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Oh, yes, if you're talking about Blavatsky/Gardnerian/Crowleyan occultism, I 100% agree. Claims to lineage are pretty laughable.
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I suppose what happened is that I read "witchcraft" in the broad sense to refer to all kinds of folk magical practices, including those that emerge organically from living human cultures.
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My experience in Mexico was that large numbers of mainstream, educated professionals had some kind of belief in sorcery.
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And on some level, everyone understands what sympathetic magic is and how to do it, or the intense ritual power of substances like blood.
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