After Azealia Banks recently tweeted that she was a witch, and The Guardian ran a piece stating that more young women than ever are becoming Wiccan (the earth focused religion whose members – both male and female – call themselves witches), it looks like witchcraft is having a moment.
Another one. After the last moment in the late 80s right through the 90s, when there was a huge growth in published books on Wicca and paganism, and everyone started quoting The Craft.
I was part of that last surge. Bullied at school for being ‘clever’ and ‘weird’ and ‘Why are you wearing a tablecloth tied around your purple cords?’ (look, I made some bold fashion choices), as well as heavily into going on the internet for six hours at a time and researching world religions, it was only a matter of time before I stumbled across Wicca.
Mainly because, as much as I tried, I couldn't quite connect with Jesus and God and the solemn male voices echoing off church walls telling me that I might go to hell if I did bad stuff. more
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