To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Because the label of witchcraft has been used to demonize colonized people and their practices, Witchcraft was approached as a deeply inappropriate term for religions belonging to BIPOC communities, especially Yoruba-inspired traditions such as Vodou, Candomble, and Santeria, and Indigenous traditions like curandera. In colonial settlement contexts, such as South America and the Caribbean, oppressed communities of color, often enslaved or formerly enslaved, including those of African, Indigenous, and mestiza descent, continued to develop worship and protective practices that were derided as magical by ruling authorities. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. These witch bells are wonderfully crafted, a little bit smaller than I thought they might be, but are exactly as pictured. As I was outlining these power dynamics in a lecture for my “Witchcraft, Magic, and the Occult” course, a student furrowed her brow and raised her hand.Her monograph, Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection (2018), investigates intersections between religion, gender, and politics among social justice activists. Heidi Breuer traverses both the medieval and early modern periods and considers the way in which the representation of literary witches interacted with the culture at large, ultimately arguing that a series of economic crises in the fourteenth century created a labour shortage met by women. It came with a tarot card from one of my favorite decks, actually one of the first decks I ever owned.

Much responsibility for the confusion about witches and Witches can be laid at the feet of anthropology.

Gardner coordinated with Egyptologist Margaret Murray to present his initiatory magical tradition as evidence for the organized, European witch-cult that she had hypothesized could have survived the cultural genocide of early modern Christian persecutions. Place the paper herbs and rose quartz into a cute lil sachet, seal the spell by making a circle with the candle under the sachet, and then whack that bad boy into your pocket.