“There's a little witch in all of us."
25 Witch Quotes to Help You Get in Touch With Your Magickal Side
Whether you’re exploring witchcraft as a spiritual path or simply re-watching The Craft for the twelfth time, it’s always a good time to read up on witches. Real-life or fictional, witches have captivated our cultural imagination for literally millennia.
The concept of witchcraft has existed for at least as long as recorded history. Witches appear in the religious texts, mythology, and folk tales around the world. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the English word “witch” is derived from the Old English word “wicce.”
According to Quartz, we’re currently in the midst of a resurgence of witchcraft in the United States. A 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that 0.4% of Americans, or around 1.5 million Americans, identify as Wiccan, Pagan, or “Other New Age groups”—around double the number who identified this way a decade earlier. Wicca and Paganism aren't the only spiritual paths in which followers may identify as witches, however. People who follow other spiritual traditions, such as Brujería, may (or may not) identify as witches.
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Quotes From Real-Life Witches
“Being a witch means living in this world consciously, powerfully and unapologetically.” —Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft by Gabriela Herstik
“The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.”—from Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler
“Witches exist throughout space and time. Witchcraft brings together the magical people throughout the world for the shared goals of justice, liberation, and celebration of the life force of the earth.”—from Initiated by Amanda Yates Garcia
“Witches are the original activists. Anytime you have something that has to do with empowerment and being free and being wild and being who you are, there’s definitely going to be some opposition to that.” —Bri Luna, the Hoodwitch
“When I say witchcraft is a spirituality, I mean it is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.” —from The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development by Christopher Penczak
Movie Quotes About Witches
“Relax, it’s only magic.” —from The Craft
“There's a little witch in all of us." —from Practical Magic
“You'd think they'd never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before.” —from Kiki’s Delivery Service
“The day he left me was the day I died. But then I was reborn as a witch.” —from The Love Witch
“Like others before me, I have the gift of sight. But the truth changes color, depending on the light. And tomorrow can be clearer than yesterday.” —from Eve’s Bayou
TV Quotes About Witches
“What's the matter? I have to be a witch, I have to be a mortal, I have to be a teenager and I have to be a girl all at the same time. That's what's the matter.” —from Sabrina The Teenage Witch
“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch." —from Bewitched
“The day we found magic, I thought we were going to change the world.” —from Charmed
“You girls need to learn to fight. When witches don't fight, we burn.” —from American Horror Story: Coven
“The magicks I used are very powerful. I'm very powerful. And maybe it's not such a good idea for you to piss me off.”—from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Quotes About Witches and Feminism
“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.” —Yoko Ono
“The witch is the ultimate embodiment of the divine feminine—and the demon feminine. She has as many faces as the moon, so regardless of your background there is an iteration for you.” —Kristen J. Sollée
“The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.” —Mädchen Amick
“‘Witch’ is something we call a woman who demands the benefit of the doubt, who speaks the truth, who punctures the con, who kills your joy if your joy is killing.” —from The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
“If the broom / fits the witch / it is time to / ride it / act up / resist.” —The Yerbamala Collective
Quotes About Witches from Novels
“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.”—from A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
“Do not take juju lightly, unless you are looking for unexpected death.” —from Akata Warrior by Nnendi Okorafor
“Those of you who have read my tale up till now must be wondering who is this witch devoid of hatred, who is misled each time by the wickedness in men’s hearts? For the nth time I made up my mind to be different and fight it out tooth and nail. But how to work a change in my heart and coat its lining with snake venom?” —from I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”—from Circe by Madeleine Miller
“She ate the stars and swallowed the earth, / She is the girl with all the power.” —from Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
This story originally appeared on: Cosmopolitan - Author:Erika W. Smith
