The DARK SECRET Behind Witches | From the First Witch to Harry Potter

The dark secret behind witches is bigger than Salem, from ancient myths and witch trials to Harry Potter’s Hermione and Bellatrix, this video uncovers how the witch archetype was created, twisted into nothing like the originals and turned into the pop culture icon we know today.🧹🔥

✨ In this video, we’ll explore:
The real history of witches and witchcraft
How the Church and witch trials spread lies about witches
The evolution of the witch archetype in myth, folklore, and pop culture
Why witches became villains in fairy tales and Disney
The rise of modern witchcraft and #WitchTok

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Sources:
Silvia Federici — Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Margaret Murray — The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (older but influential, though contested)
Ronald Hutton — The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Jeffrey Burton Russell — Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
Marina Warner — From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Carlo Ginzburg — The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Emma Wilby — The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Christina Larner — Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland
Julian Goodare — The European Witch-Hunt
Brian Levack — The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
Tanya Luhrmann — Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England

✨Who’s your favorite witch, and who played her best? 🧹(Sarah Sanderson, Hermione, Sabrina, Wanda, Maleficent, the list goes on… 👀) Let me know!

Chapters:
00:00 - The Witch
01:03 - Origins: Before ‘Witch’ Existed
06:07 - Witch Trials
08:35 - The Fairy-Tale Hag: Medieval Fear
10:52 - Pop-Culture Rebrands (Bewitched, Sabrina, Harry Potter)
23:03 - Modern Witches & Witchtok
24:58 - Why The Witch Archetype Survives


#Witches #WitchTok #WitchHistory #Folklore #harrypotter #wizardingworld #SabrinaTheTeenageWitch #ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina
#HocusPocus #DisneyWitches