There's a whole world of strangeness that popular culture, science etc does not satisfyingly address. So they look elsewhere.
Sometimes you see things.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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Fantasy is fun?
ITT: “if only girls didn’t believe in horoscopes, my friend from college would have had a girlfriend”
Seriously. It’s so crazy to me to hate a behaviour based solely on its perceived impact on the chances of getting laid.
As if most of the people who got dumped over their zodiac weren’t just arseholes and the other person didn’t have heart to tell them.
The last statement is not necessarily true- witchcraft has until very recently been understood to derive power from a concord with the devil.
That's speaking from a certain perspective on that stuff.
"been understood to" is doing a lot of shady sleight-of-hand there.
I think the concept of "witches" is older than the concept of "church".
Here, I googled it for you:
“Witches were sometimes said to have communed with demons or with the Devil, though such accusations were mainly made against perceived opponents of the Church.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft (This specific section has a paper citation)
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”.
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When I was a kid girls went through a horse obsession phase. Boys had one with cars or dinosaurs.
I remember this happening when I was a teen, and there are still many women I know into it.
My mother was a self proclaimed witch since the 80's/90's, and told me as a child fairies were real, and constantly told me I "had psychic powers." She read my cards and all that. It fucked me up wholly, and pushed me to science and fact. It's not for me, and I don't understand the fascination. But, if it makes other women happy, it's really harmless.
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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.
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because being in a coven with amazing women is preferable than being near high school boys.
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