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

[butterduck.livejournal.com]

Reading some of the comments above, I see the point about younger kids, but Harry Potter was hardly the influence on kids when the first and second books came out as the media monster it has become today. And I did stuff like looking for witches and fairies in the woods behind my house and trying to do magic and call up Aslan and other weird stuff... I don't think it's now become "popular"; I think that magic is a really interesting idea and like many, I used my imagination to escape reality. Reading a lot just makes those other influences come out more.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, that...I think the Harry Potter series became so popular because it catered to kids' secret wishes that way.