witchcraft, crazy witchcraft

[kleenexwoman]

I used to think I was weird because I wanted to be a witch when I was thirteen. Recently, people have told me that no, most girls go through this phase at some point in their adolescence. (I could ramble about the psychology behind this, but I think that it should be pretty obvious if you are a girl or know girls or have read books about them.)
Do all girls think this makes them weird? Why isn't this some sort of girly bonding thing?

"Hey, Heather, were you into witchcraft too when you were, like, in middle school?"
"Oh my gawd, I totally was! I went around, like, blighting crops and cursing cows to not give milk!"
"I put the pox on people! Oh, man, we were such dorks!"

Comments

[benprime.livejournal.com]

doesn't everyone _want_ to be weird at some point? Is that the age where we start carving out our own individuality, based on difference?

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Or at least when we start to say: "I wanna be different, just like everyone else!"

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

It certainly is, which I think is quite a lot of the pansexual attraction to magic--it's a secret that nobody else has, a way to get an edge up on the social competition. (If only it really worked...but then we'd have magical arms races in 8th grade.)