The Witch Trope, Explained 

since when is wizard a compliment

You're completely wrong, but anything to further the feminist agenda.

@@SD-zz4ov maybe not wizard per se

@@SD-zz4ov - Wizard is commonly used in an informal way to say someone is extremely gifted or talented in a specific area. If someone's good with math, someone might say "this person's a math wiz"; if they're good in their job at finance, one might say "he's a financial wizard. You can literally look up the definition of wizard and it will often show a footnote saying that it is also informally used to describe someone as "talented" or "skilled."

I felt that way also! I loved the scene in harry potter where he is told hes a wizard, but initially disliked hermione being called a witch. In germany we actually have two terms - hexe describes typically a bad witch and zauberin would be a female wizard. So there is in fact a difference! I dont understand why there is no term like "wizardress"

Also always white and blond

THIS

Yesssssssssss

But then the Evil Queen is super glamorous. And confusion intensifies

Well Hollywood hasn’t been known to have the best representation of reality

yeah I wish they were mentioned

Yeah it didn’t flip the trope on it’s head though, that’s was done decades before

Ir is a great movie!!

Love those movies so much just watched them today 💛💛

I LOVED THAT MOVIE SO MUCH, THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

@Manophere. com don't know who this Queen is but there are so many things in life that can influence. This is a feminist essay, anyone that has really done harm such a killing children to bath herself might have had a mental illness. It is still very very sad so...

@@karupe9982 ignore him, he's a troll that think men suffer -most- in this cruel -matriarchal- world of ours.

@Manophere. com are you talking about Elizabeth Bathory?

@Manophere. com Well she was a serial killer, a noblewoman, and there is no reliable evidence to prove that she bathed in her victims' blood so she could be youthful. Also, any proof that she dabbled in the dark arts, you know, like what witches are claimed to have done? This example doesn't fit the moniker of "witch" by any appreciable standard.

@Manophere. com 1. Why should they mention Elizabeth Bathory? She was a historical figure, The Take does media breakdowns lol what is even the correlation here? 2. I'm no history expert, but as far as I'm aware we still don't have enough evidence to confirm whether the Blood Countess *actually* included blood baths among her ~other~ hobbies, or this was no more than a rumor believed in by people deriving from their superstitious beliefs about witches. It's *likely* that she surrounded herself with people who practiced witchcraft but in and of itself that doesn't prove anything. Not to make her sound better than she was- by literally all accounts left to us she was an awful person- I'm just saying our sources aren't exactly the most reliable either.

I usually do put my faith in fellow witches. But it also depends on how fresh the prince is

How so?

@@ertfgghhhh Like with the outfits, their origin, how they are received by everyone around them and the dialects( you know languages affect pronunciation of incantations)

It's very important to remember that the girls covered the Christian-Catholic version of the witch. For example in Slavic culture a witch was regarded as a healer in her village, her name in russian means Ved'ma "the one who knows", women and girls would ask for her advice and help with health, love and family issues. She was regarded highly in her community. Also just being a redhead or old maid wouldn't make one a witch, drowning a girl wouldn't tell you if she's a witch either, to become a witch you had to fulfill certain requirements to be born as one, or just be born to a witch. You could also learn to be a witch but they were not trusted as much, they were considered much weaker than a born witch. As in 'becoming' a witch was very hard. Also, the pagan Slavic tradition had male "witches" but they were VERY different from the western idea of a mage. The Ved'un (same root as the female one) was akin to a druid, an old wise man who knew the ways of the world, they had a strong connection to nature. In contrast to the female witch that had to be born in the right circumstances a Ved'un had to work his whole life to attain that status, like the Buddhist/Asian monks, he had to cultivate his spirit and know the scriptures. Of course, they were also regarded with high respect and they were super rare. EDIT: In the medieval ages the christian idea of a witch spread to the russian empire but the witch hunts never had the same extent as in Europe. So the more recent image of a witch in Eastern Europe is similar to the christian one in the West. The witches were either beautiful young widows who drove men crazy or old and ugly women that lived in forests, away from the villages, so that they wouldn't randomly get lynched when the villagers felt like it.

@@arnaeri9290 thank you for explaining it further

May I ask: what is garri?

So a female doctor or female lawyer

Well, for some reason people tend to forget that the witch trials wouldn’t have even happened if it weren’t for the group of women that decided to lie about every other female they didn’t like. Seems like not much has changed since then 🤷‍♂️

I mean it's easier to accuse midwife that she did something bad when in a family a child was born dead or disfigured or didn't born at all. Midwifes were accused of witchery if a family failed to get pregnant because no one would ever accuse man of infertility and for a woman it's also easier to accuse a midwife instead of think that she's infertile because that could cost her life.

@@agii4619 I get that! Often times with history like this, there are a lot of overlapping factors. Midwives had power via their medical knowledge, and religious leaders and priests who wanted to take it away from them would have benefitted from spreading and supporting the kinds of rumors about midwives that you listed. I think the two go hand-in-hand. :^)

Just an extra note - PhilosophyTube’s video “Gender, Witchcraft, and Marxism” also touches heavily on this, and I can’t believe I forgot to mention it earlier!

@Manophere. com the society is patriarcal, dude, and women are the ones most often mistreated. And it is a fact that most women accused of witchcraft during history were the victims, even if there were some few people who were truly evil and stuff. The take is just trying to explain why witches were portrayed as villains on media for such a long time and how this fear of witches originated.

@Manophere. com dude I see u everywhere trolling like this? R u that bored with ur life to go out of ur way to show ur outdated mentality.

and then everyone clapped.

Brilliant! Mad me smile 😊

@Manophere. com mba'epiko amigo. Alright, you definitely don't live in this world, so if you ever find a way yo show us that wonderful society where women rule that you seem to live in, please let us know. I really want to see something like that before I die. Have a nice day.

I guess they figured the length of the vide was already long enough but I’d love to see them go into that

I was also expecting to hear the more religious take. Hopefully one day.

Check out In Praise of Shadows' channel, they've got a whole series on how Witches are portrayed in different forms of media.

@@nattalieii125 Agreed. The video consistently sidesteps the fact that "witch" is not only a fantasy term but also a religious one, as well as the fact that fears of deviation from religious and social norms, especially when it comes to BIPOC folx, play such a powerful role in early persecutions as well as modern portrayals. And while the pagan revival is a very recent phenomenon, i don't think it can be ignored. The take means well, but i think this video goes down for me as another example of them letting their concern for mainstream white feminism narrow their vision away from other kinds of oppression.

Yep. And the lack of female presence in the bible and all male dominance. No wonder the patriarchy persisted for so long...

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Not really, but okay.

Amen, they're definitely my favourite analysis channel out there! 😁♥️

@@AxxLAfriku 😄😄😄😄

@@trinaq Why?

It's true, it's what keeps them up to date and relevant

They hate the woman with unchecked power

@@Pinkranger87 *UNLIMITED POWER* - Palpatine

Seems many modern 'witches' who claim the term was used to make women look bad seem to forget. Many men were also accused of being witches and killed for it during witch trials. One of them, during the Salem trials knew if he confessed to being a witch they would take all his land. So, he chose to die by their torture instead of confess, so his sons would still inherit his land.

Both.

@Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah but they aré minimal. And isn't wrong to accuse a víctims of lying just for speaking out? Like, everyone seems to never consider that a Man who says that he were falsely accused could be lying to clean himself and get simpathy.

I did too, was disappointed when it got cancelled

Me three. What a shame it got canceled. 😞

Me fourth! It was great!

Sameew

I have the book series saved on my Amazon but I haven't bought the yet

because it literally is good to help others and be honest and caring ?

Maybe it's because living in the woods isn't exactly comfortable and warm, and it could be a message that other people want to show kindness to this quirky lady by offering her... oh... idk... a house. But that's just me.

@@edengallagher1044 why do we have be the kind of good you want?

@@vivvy_0 oh boy

@@vivvy_0 It's not the king of good of humanity?

Mood 🤪

Same 😂

A witch with a B

Literally 😭 like what about the building block of witchraft which is the CRAFT and the connectivity with Mother Nature

I like to think Willow paved the way for that. She was strong but also flawed as after losing the love of her life(Tara) she got addicted to black magic and then decided to take recovery from magic addiction into her own hands.

Oh shit I never noticed

I believe this also the case in some of the first tellings of Snow White

@@jasonmack2569 Yeah I always thought the evil mother made the ending of Snow White more interesting. It made me question whether Snow White defeats the evil or is hinited to repeat the cycle since in most Snow White versions she kills or approves a brutal act of violence to distroy her own mother. Red hot iron shoes exc......

The Hansel and Gretel story goes back even further than the Grimm's version, & in a French version of the tale called Le Petit Poucet it's the father who insists on abandoning the children & the witch was a male ogre. I'm unaware of the version you mention but I would be interested to read it! Also, on the RU-vid channel Monstrum they suggest that the abandonment of children might have been influenced from the massive famines throughout Europe. Think of GOT when Old Nan said mothers would sooner smother their babes rather than see them starve or when that when farmer & his daughter were found to have slit their throats rather than starve to death. So perhaps not neglect, but some fracked up compassion. I do think that the Grimm's gender swap of which parent is the cruel one & powerful well of witch (Gingerbread house? Talk about privilege, right?) but still wants more does perpetuate negative female perceptions & the witch trope.

@@maddyjoh8488 it's such an interesting story with so so so many versions, I've heard of the French origin but I've never actually read the French one

This seems to be a very common thing when it comes to making the villain an evil sorceress. The same happened with Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend, or Morgana from BBC’s Merlin. She was a benevolent, powerful healer in the original stories turned an evil villain.

Yes, and note how, in the case of Lucy (often portrayed as very flirtatious/outright promiscuous in adaptations), the restoration of the proper order involves her husband symbolically reasserting his sexual dominance by driving a phallic wooden stake into her. However, to be fair to Stoker, when Dracula bites Mina (in a scene that has distinct rape parallels) she is absolutely treated as an innocent who has gone through a horrific experience through no fault of her own, with no victim-blaming in sight, and she continues to be a useful and proactive member of the team. Stoker may have been scared/disgusted by female sexuality, but he seemed to have been ahead of his time in some other ways.

@@mzytryck Wow, never realized that simbolism. It makes a lot of sense. But, yeah, you're right when It comes to Mina. At least Stoker did that, I guess Great talking to you!

I have a watch theme to my kitchen. My sugar bowl is a ceramic pumpkin made of leaves. My cookware is all orange. I have two cookbooks on display, both of which mention kitchen wichcraft in the title. And I have a score of other witchy things. One of my favourites is a little sign that says "eat, drink, and be witchy"

@@forestgrump4723 I love it!

I tried to grow out of it, but later in adulthood realized trying to undo ones dreams (whether realistic or fantastic) is futile. Go on, embrace what you love.

You can still practice witchcraft and feel a connectivity and power of the things around you, but do not hold onto hollywood-esque ideas of magik. You may not be able to lift objects into the sky but you can certainly do smaller things that create a domino effect in the way you want things to be

@@waffles658 It's a nice fantasy, but seems silly now that I no longer believe in supernatural things.

A bit like the Madonna-Whore complex, I think

Why can't we have an anti-hero witch?

Women are brought up to be in competition with each other.

his innocent child will hurt him more

This was portrayed on mythology as well, Athena cursed Medusa because Poseidon assaulted her when it should have been the other way around

@@paperbagboi3185 in some variations of the story it was because her beauty was why she was raped so she was made ugly to protect herself

In the film, "Maleficent", Maleficent cursed the King's child because he took something precious from her, her wings. Therefore, she decided to hurt him by taking something precious from him, his child.

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Theres an article where it states that Morgan le Fay was actually not evil in the original stories but after the control of catholic Christianity, she was re written to be an evil seductress or a power seeking witch. I tried to link it but for some reason .youtube takes it down. But it’s called “Morgan le fay: how Arthurian legend turned a powerful woman from healer to villain” I think you would enjoy the read!

Written by “the conversation “

In earlier versions of the story, what we think of as "Morgana Le Fay" actually started out as two characters - Morgana Le Fay who is kind of a female counterpart to Merlin and not terribly evil though not always helpful either, and Morgause, who is not a witch but hates her half-brother King Arthur for what his father did to her father and mother (which was pretty dirty but not Arthur's fault).The two characters get conflated in later tellings of the story and her evil gets ramped up a lot.

It's because up until around the 18th-19th century, the term witch during the Middle Age and Renaissance simply meant someone who consort with the devil.

@@isaacgray2909 yes, even men executed because they accused to be witches

Oh so that's why dana terrace make witch a gender neutral term in the boiling isles

Yes, witch was anyone they deemed to be devil worshippers for whatever crazy reasons they could come up with. This included many men that we're killed because of it. But still they weren't accused nearly as much as women.

It still is what're you talking about?

Goes to show that it is indeed often the most socially vulnerable and disempowered that get scapegoated and vilified.

This also happens in my country (Ghana) sadly, and most of the victims are old women who live alone. Unfortunately, they recieve worse treatments than yours. They are usually either stoned, lynched, dumped in "witch camps", or kicked out of their homes and villages. Recently, an old woman was lynched in the Northern parts of my country because she was falsely accused of being a witch. The unfortunate consequences of lack of education, poverty, and religious dogmatism and paranoia

@@charlesbourgoigne2130 She contacts the police first but I think they can't do much. Since it's nothing physical (yet), just no one wants to talk to her or sell something to her anymore. I think after the news blow up they held some ritual to cash the bad juju around the village when the polish guard the house to keep everyone safe. I don't see the update after that.

@@yothiga Wow and all I've heard is that Thailand is great for transgender women, but now I'm not sure of Thailand is great for cisgender woman? No hate tho.

Didn't JK Rowling said that Harry Potter or some aspects of Harry Potter were inspired by Christianity?

I think they might have already done that one. That one is also known as the "tomboy" trope.

I think the cool girl trope covers that

Yes, they did that in "the cool girl" trope

@@Maedchenausdemmeer I actually mean the trope of demonizing like feminine characteristics, for example Tessa in after who is glorified because “she doesn’t drink” or “doesn’t have sex” etc

@@Maedchenausdemmeer mmh 🤔 I’ve seen that video but that is actually not what I mean 😔

You mean the Wizened Crone and the _young_ maiden? Open minded though naive, not ignorant so much as inexperienced.

Medeas reaction was a bit ... excessive.

@Manophere. com incel alert?

@@IsomerSoma excessive is really an understatement

Likewise, I love how they've released a Halloween Themed video, and congratulations on finally getting your Witch analysis! 🧙‍♀️💜

Still not going to forgive them for Cuties

It's sad because Animal Hoarding is actually a real thing and could do a lot of damage, yet it's played for laughs.

It must be the Season of the Witch, at long last! 🧙‍♀️🥰🖤

The origin of the Karens 🤣🤣🤣

Your profile name is relatable on a spiritual level to me...

@@joyc.e.7511 I’m glad...haha

@@thisnigerianlovesdrinkingg4522 are you Nigerian? The take should have watched some Nigerian movies to see a more evil side of witchcraft.

Ooh yeah I've noticed that too, that'd be so interesting! There seems to be a fascination with female characters in positions of power (seeing a lot of empresses and countesses lately) going dark for varying reasons and doing evil shit until our protagonist gets yeeted into her body. I think it's interesting that their motive for redeeming the villainess is most often self-preservation- the plot tends to revolve around turning a new leaf and atoning for the villainess' sins in order to prevent violence done to her body. The protagonist is often already familiar with a version of the story in which the villainess gets her comeuppance before they get isekai-ed into it, so they are using their knowledge to prevent getting killed- often enough by the hand of a lover/loved one for "going Dark Phoenix" yikes. Interestingly, the original villainess loses all agency and is less of a character and more of an event that conveniently set obstacles for our protagonist to overcome when they steal her body and identity. She just... conveniently fades into oblivion so that our protagonist can live out their adventure and we aren't supposed to think about it too hard. I... still don't know exactly what my feelings are towards this genre tbh. It just sounds like a redemption arc with lots of extra, unnecessary steps and a bit of isekai sprinkled on top for commercial reasons. I honestly get second-hand impostor syndrome from it lol. Especially when it comes to the relationships- where one character thinks they are the same villainess who just had a change of heart, when they are a different person entirely pretending to be the villainess. It feels especially icky in romantic relationships or when the villainess and a character had a pre-established relationship gone sour due to her villainy, but then that character is like "you've finally come back to me (ಥ﹏ಥ)" and every time I'm like "no, she really hasn't ( ͜。 ͡ʖ ͜。)". It just feels like all such stories I've read intent to tell this escapist fantasy with a redemption arc in focus and aren't particularly interested in getting into the ramifications of that isekai switcheroo- acknowledging the villainess as her own person and how it affects her, how waking up as an entirely different person affects our protagonist's psychology and how all of that affects their relationships. I'll happily take recommendations that prove me wrong but it kinda feels like despite the interesting premise and elements none of them wants to explore them in depth- if you've read one you've read them all. I think the appeal of it is this conveniently cherry-picky "devious hot femme fatale waifu BUT we don't do moral ambiguity here so keep it sympathetic" aesthetic. Interestingly, a lot of these characters are physically competent or have powerful magic powers and are a lot more likely to be more open about their sexuality, have their own reverse harem at their disposal etc. That way you get to enjoy the witch aesthetic (in its archetypal sense) but waait, your moral compass doesn't have to get challenged when you root for her because see, this female character is everything you like about the witch- beautiful, sensual, powerful- except the witch herself. Literally. The witch is dead, long live the good girl who took her body.

@@chiefpurrfect8389 hey can you recommend me some of those stories. I know just one of them and it’s an anime. The one I’m talking about it’s about called "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

@prak look it up yourself.

@@onepiecegotmeinlove691 Yeah, I haven't seen it but I know what it's about. If I'm to namedrop a series I've recently read I'd go with the manhwa "I've Become The Villainous Empress Of A Novel". It's pretty self-explanatory and it hits all the bits I mentioned- the isekai switcheroo, the empress was into debauchery, had a personal harem, she was murdered by one her closest allies who was in love with her etc. A manhua by the name "Mu You Zhi" also comes to mind for having lots of similar elements (beautiful art too).

@@chiefpurrfect8389 hey thanks, I will probably read it later. I do recommend to watch the anime I said before. It does contains some of the things you mentioned but it has a different take on it and it’s amazingly hilarious. Thanks to you I will be more observant when consuming content like that (Can I say its like a guilty pleasure?) anyways about the anime I mentioned the protagonist is reincarnated in this other world which was inside one of those otome games that let you interact with the character etc. Since she was transported when the “villain” is a child so there is not that much of that would be for an adult “huh she changed, but she din’t actually changed she is just another person” and she doesn’t have that magical boost or anything like that. The “villain” (at least at this point is just a literal bratty child) also she has women/men harem (but its not perverted and full of fan service 😌) It is never said or even hinted that the protagonist is atoning for the sins of the villain, she is just trying not to get a “bad ending” like the game say she will. Anyways, so even though it has some of the things you mentioned before I still thinks it deserves a watch, specially when you are feeling down and you just want laughter.

I wanted to be the princess of witches... remember the Halloween Town finale?

As a child, if I was pretending to be a princess or a mermaid, i was also secretly a good witch. Making potions, having a familiar and doing spells was way more fun. I wonder if it’s because princesses in stories didn’t have much to do. I wonder if little boys often pretended they had powers or were satisfied with realistic things to pretend to be.

Uh oh we got a “not like other girls” one in here.

@@samathajeanmonroe5575 How? Just because someone is interested in some other thing that is not popular or common with his or her age group, that does not make them a NLTOG. Let people enjoy what they like.

I think The Take's video on where the dumb blonde came from, said something about how blond with associate with lust or something, while brunette where portrayed as more innocent. I think the example that use is how in some paintings Eve is portrayed as a blond, while the Virgin Mary is portrayed as a brunette.

@@kittykittybangbang9367 yes! I know exactly what video you’re talking about. Blondes are seen as sexy because of how rare natural blonde hair is in grown women. The immediate “sexy” appeal of a blonde is how rare she is. However, there are many children who are born blonde and whose hair darkens as they age, which is where blonde draw that connotation to innocence. It’s an interesting dichotomy, and one that can be applied to the brunette too. Brunettes have a sinister connotation because of the dark color of their hair (think dark haired bombshells and vixens). At the same time, they were connected to mothers as most mothers were brunette (the whole blond minority thing) Basically, they both have an innocent/malevolent dichotomy. Blondes are either infantilized as a clueless innocent to protect, or she’s a rare sexual beauty . Brunettes are either wicked women, or she’s a sexless mother. :)

Tara from Buffy. Samantha from Bewitched. Scarlet Witch from MCU, SarahJessica Parker in Hocus Pocus, Glinda in Wizard of Oz, all(?) the witches in Sleep Hollow. Elsa in Frozen, the one that looked exactly like Chloe in Smallville, also Sabrina from the Witcher, Wynne from Dragon Age, Lux from league of Legends, Dark Magician Girl from Yugioh, Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter, the White Witch of Narnia...

same I would make an amazing wicked witch of the west i swearr

Interestingly, it’s also a blue moon

@@Ava-jq5ll yes!

I fucking love that movie.

Yeah I loved it too. And dare I say it, I like it better than the original lol.

I sincerely think Guadagnino’s Suspira is one of the great movies of our time. It’s treatment of women’s power and sexuality is maybe too ambiguous to fit neatly into this video’s take on the trope but I would have loved to see a discussion of how that movie fits into the evolving figure of the witch.

THANK YOU for pointing this out. Covens are a frequently-depicted film concept, with my two favorite recent examples being Suspiria and The Neon Demon.

that film has the best witches representation i’ve ever seen.

Yes, who knew that hapless, bumbling Mr Bean could successfully take down one of the most evil Witches of all time, who also moonlights as Morticia Addams?! 😈😉

wh a t

i adore anjelica huston..loved her as the grand high witch as horrid as she was tho.

Ok...

Same! I watch that movie anytime I feel frustrated

Hahaha 😅

Just when I was starting to think this isn't a channel for girls to whine....

@@amangoyal923 Just when you think you can speak freely about your life experiences, a nosy boy would barge in and express his disapproval with it.....

@@amangoyal923 Quit whining.

I had someone call me a witch. I told them thanks for the compliment.

Literally the main reason 💀 Christianity directly clashed paganism and with the old catholic Christianity came patriarchal values and control. So they are linked but I just wished they talked about it

@@waffles658 The Roman Empire was also very patriarchial , as we're the Ancient Greeks and most of History they we're pagan. Romans were also not very fond of magic practices. Sorry, but patriarchy did NOT start with christianity, many so called pagan societies were very patriarchial too, despite having powerful goddesses like Artemis...

Ooh, a very suspenseful quote! Wishing you a Happy and Spooky Halloween! 🦇🎃👻

@@trinaq Same to you 🦇🎃👻

Is that a book??

@@vanesalodico7798 Movie.

Mentioned at 14:45

@@adarateranroldan oh ok thx

She's not even mentioned 😭 what an oversight

I was waiting for her name the whole video... Bonnie was the bravest witch of all. 😭

I knowwwww

@shogun harlem the commentor wasn't talking about why they were ugly, they were talking about the so called "ugly features" associated with them being ethnic features. Work on your reading comprehension.

@Manophere. com 😪

@Manophere. com dude

You definitely have excellent timing! Adore your profile picture, by the way! ♥️👏🏾

Every time I see Sabrina I can't help but think of Rose Lalonde when I see her.

Same. Been a practitioner for 21 years.

@@RuthlessTides Same here! I've been a practicing Witch since 1999.

I know i was surprised they included so many scenes. I'll never really forgive Bradley for leaving and the writers for dragging it out then having the climax and resolution all in the last few min of the last episode. Horrible!

A weird saying, because witches who were burned could still have descendants. They just had to reproduce before they were burned.

Funny thing is witches were never burned in America not in a large scale at least they were hung witches were burned at the stake at large scale in Europe

I wrote part of one of my term paper on this topic (The term paper was about how The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (A Sherlock Holmes short story) could be use to raise awareness about sterotypical gender portrayals in literature at school). This particular story both enforces and breaks with gender sterotypes such as "The Damsel in Distress" by presenting two seemingly contrasting female characters. Of particular interest is the main character of Violet Hunter who is portrayed as being cunning, independet and clever but in the end she still depends on the male characters to solve the mystery. While, Homes is mostly famous for is so called deduction, Hunter's own investigations are presented as depending on her woman's instinct. Now if we look at the difference between "deduction" and "instinct" it becomes clear that deduction focuses more on intelligence, rationality and science while instinct is something not rational and nothing you can really prove with facts and what could perhaps be even described as mere luck. PS: Sorry for my rambling

"Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble..." 🔥🧙‍♀️

Hands down, best Potter film. Cuarón's a genius.

Is that that black and white cartoon? What is that? I would very much like to watch it

@@forestgrump4723 I think it’s called something like Minky Momo? Maybe? I don’t know how it’s spelled

Like lesbian witches? They didn't even talk about widow witches.

Yeah, it seemed like the only sexuality was witches seducing men to sire a child or “tempting” men (by existing). Lesbianism, female intimacy, even polygamous depictions of witches wasn’t really brought up.

same considering how in older times, a woman not wanting kids, unmarried and secluded from society very much rings a bell towards her not being straight.

It was a great book too. Kind of surprised it wasn't featured here -- or if it was, then I missed it.

I love that movie