Witchy Memes

There's a whole world of strangeness that popular culture, science etc does not satisfyingly address. So they look elsewhere.

Sometimes you see things.

Fantasy is fun?

ITT: “if only girls didn’t believe in horoscopes, my friend from college would have had a girlfriend”

The last statement is not necessarily true- witchcraft has until very recently been understood to derive power from a concord with the devil.

When I was a kid girls went through a horse obsession phase. Boys had one with cars or dinosaurs.

Is this just girls?

Am boy, had a witchy phase

Meanwhile wizards: "BEHOLD MY STAFF OF POWER", "I'm pondering the SPHERES", "KNEEL BEFORE MY MIGHTY ROD".

Jokes aside, that is a culture thing - if my rather tattered memory serves, historically, a lot of magic was pact magic (asking someone else for power in exchange). Necromancy was a little different (before its conflation with "nigromancy" by the church in medieval times) and in its earlier incarnation generally involved a "descent" into the underworld via a gate (of which there were many) and so was almost "adventure magic". These ancient holy sites were venerated rather than shunned and, again memory is patchy here, generally held an oracle (i.e. a witch).

So, fun fact of the day, if you go caving in the right place you're technically a necromancer.

Theory - mass media creates the narrative that witches in the US are Devil worshippers, often with a pretty manly depiction of the Devil, thereby trying to enforce that they “derive their power from their relationship to a man”.