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What really drew me into witchcraft was how it didn’t focus so much on making everyone live under the same rules,” says Antonina, who is 19-years-old, queer, and a self-labelled witch. She moved to the UK from Bulgaria, where she was raised around Christianity, and finds witchcraft to be a more welcoming form of spirituality, pointing out that you don’t have to be straight, cis, or be part of the gender binary to practise. “Sexuality isn’t treated as a taboo, there’s no shame around it as there is in other religions,” she says. “As long as you aren’t harming anyone or anything you can live how you want to and I think that’s so important for individuality and freedom of expression. All kinds of love can be viewed as pure and holy!” Bailee!!! you inspire me in so many ways – your kind generous spirit, your work ethic, creativity, talent, care of others, your playful spirit!!! and so much more! LOVE YOU girl!! I will definitely miss you on set.. we ALL will. But I am excited to see where your journey takes you next. And I’m with you wherever that is❤️”

But she wished her sister had come under different circumstances, not because she needed her help. Oh, they'd destroyed most of the red room, but they still had to get rid of the roots, and Yelena had come across the most persistent of them all.

The witch-hunt began in the small village of Manningtree, Essex. Hopkins and Stearne collaborated with locals to identify and prosecute individuals suspected of practicing witchcraft. Alleged witches were detained, interrogated, sleep deprived and tortured until they offered a satisfactory confession. To uncover physical proof of witchcraft, female suspects were stripped naked, possibly shaved, and searched by a group of women for the witch’s mark, a supernumerary nipple from which demons fed. Once the witch-finders collected sufficient information against a witch, locals and Justices of the Peace (JPs) composed official legal documents to be used as evidence at the Assize courts. Ulrich Molitor, De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus (Constance, 1489). This woodcut depicts a woman being seduced by the Devil. ( Wikimedia Commons) Since its release in 2022, fans have heralded The Witch from Mercury as a new touchstone in LGBTQ+ anime. The anime’s popularity led to widespread acclaim and has broken records for a Gundam franchise. To many fans, the show clearly depicted a sapphic love story, but a new statement from showrunners has called the queer representation into question. According to a statement from Bandai Namco Filmworks, the relationship shared between Suletta and Miorine has an “interpretation up to the perspective of each individual viewer,” according to Holy Mother of Yuri. Now, fans are calling bullshit online. While Hocus Pocus flopped when it first came out in theaters, the movie has an evergreen run, not just because it’s entertaining but also as with so many witch movies, there’s an undertone of feminist commentary throughout the film. Writer Amanda FitzSimons in her retrospective about the Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary explains: Fanfictionisthegame Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, wandanat - Fandom, scarletwidow - Fandom It had to do with the status anxiety that straight men must have felt during those years, between the rise of the second wave of the women’s movement and after Stonewall. There was a kind of fear about lesbians that could be articulated in the vampire film,” said Andrea Weiss, a film professor at the City College of New York and author of “Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film.” “And also quell that anxiety by having the vampire be destroyed or become heterosexual at the end.”

Sexploitation titles, a subgenre of exploitation films, were geared toward men rather than lesbian audiences. The characters “acted as lesbians, but they were very much coded as heterosexual women so that they appealed to straight male audiences,” Weiss said. Bloodlust and lesbians — what could be a more winning combination? In honor of Halloween month, the programmers at New York arthouse cinema The Quad are showcasing 12 staples of the lesbian vampire genre, because who doesn’t love a broad with bite? Titled “ A Woman’s Bite: Cinema’s Sapphic Vampires,” the series also complements an excellent Jean Rollin retrospective, Très Outré: The Sinister Visions of Jean Rollin, the French horror auteur who put women at the center of his lush, gothic cinema. “A Woman’s Bite” runs October 26-November 1 at The Quad. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) the famous horror-film hostess inherits a mansion in a small town where everyone’s trying to burn her at the stake because they think she’s a witch.Four Rooms (1995) is an anthology film featuring different directors for each segment. The first story includes a coven of witches who need a very personal ingredient from a bellhop (Tim Roth) to complete a spell. Favourite quotes: “I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way” (VSW); “I like making you jealous, my darling, (and shall continue to do so,) but it’s ridiculous that you should be” (VSW); “Yes yes yes I do like you, I am afraid to write the stronger word” (VW); “Dear me; you know a lot: you have a rich dusky attic of a mind” (VW); “Everything which is mine is yours, as you very well know – even to my heart” (VSW) &“Oh my God – how I hate caring for people!” (VW).

Demonologists believed that Satan approached a woman to become his instrument, offering supernatural powers in return for her soul. In England, this contract was often thought to be made through familiar spirits. ‘[The Devil] appears in several shapes,’ described Stearne, ‘and then maketh the league, and confirms it with blood, and then sends them Familiars.’ Once she agreed to the pact, the witch became part of Satan’s kingdom. It was believed that witches in league with the Devil formed an anti-society that functioned as an inversion of Christianity. Witches were therefore presented as bad mothers, blasphemers or licentious women – characters that threatened Christian society. I’m not, of course, saying that The Witch should have had any such subplot. Without spoiling the film, I’ll say that it was exactly what it needed to be and anything extra along romantic lines would have ruined it. I’m a stereotypical horror fan and “part of the problem” in that I don’t mind graphic violence but am skeptical about romance in the genre. But the film did get me wondering why, when witch stories are on some level about women’s sexuality, lesbians are conspicuously absent from so many of them. Many of her fans do not feel that Catherine is a lesbian and feel that the couple is just staying together and are not in any sexual relationship per se. Women who step out of line are often represented as witches: the Disney, demonic, one-dimensional type who don’t reflect the real practice of witchcraft. We’re witch-hunted online just for disagreeing with misogyny. Lesbians “step out of line” by the fact of our existence — even without intention — because women are supposed to partner up with a man. Beware! Capitalizing on commercialismA strange movie with a strange history. Originally titled Hungry Wives, this film —like so many horror films in the 70s —edges on a certain kind of misogyny. Yet, in essence, it’s also a quite feminist film about, as one reviewer put it, “the plight of women who had sacrificed their lives, careers, and youth for brute husbands, who had found themselves powerless and without value once the kids were grown and who are losing youthful beauty in middle age.” These women find a solution through witchcraft and other dark spells. The Three Mothers Trilogy (1977 – 2007) Witches as portrayed in the 2007 film The Mother of Tears.

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