I Am Here To Talk About Witchcraft
There seems to be a lot of anger in the pagan community over the new movie "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters"
This seems to confuse me as, with anything from hollywood, movies with witches are usually in this regard. We should be used to it by now. Sometimes hollywood tries to do it right. Take "The Craft" the actress who played Nancy, Faruiza Baulk, had a pagan upbringing and was pagan herself. Not to mention Pat Devin, a priestess from the covenant of the goddess, based out of California, was a consultant for the movie itself. She wrote every single ritual in that movie and fought to keep it from making the faith look too horrible. The movie itself was about good vs evil and how Good can and should prevail. Mists of Avalon, Practical Magic, even Charmed. None of those made a mockary , well too much, out of Our faith. Practical Magic was about using magic for all the wrong reasons and the repercutions(sp) of doing so. Moral for every action there is an equal and deliberate reaction. Charmed, even though there was magic we know does not exsist, it was the closest thing to the real thing I even seen come out of hollywood. Book of Shadows, Power of 3, Karma, Harm none. Yet it angered people. Hollywood has to stick to action fantasy and ratings, no matter what. They are slowly trying to stick as close to the real things as possible.
But I implore you, Do not go out and protest this movie. In my honest opinion it may frightend people there and give them just cause to fear witches rather than understand. You have to remember it is just hollywood. Pat Devin said in an interview her hope from the craft was that it would bring peole to the bookstore who would then buy a book on wicca or druidisim or witchcraft as a whole and that it may bring someone to the arms of the goddess. Screaming and fighting at a theater in protest of something that is clearly hollywood and came straight from the fairytell itself (after all hansel and gretel were almost eaten by a witch so of course they would want to irradicate all witches after survival) But to each their own. I truly understand to protect our belief and fight to educate, but that is not the right outlet.
This seems to confuse me as, with anything from hollywood, movies with witches are usually in this regard. We should be used to it by now. Sometimes hollywood tries to do it right. Take "The Craft" the actress who played Nancy, Faruiza Baulk, had a pagan upbringing and was pagan herself. Not to mention Pat Devin, a priestess from the covenant of the goddess, ba
But I implore you, Do not go out and protest this movie. In my honest opinion it may frightend people there and give them just cause to fear witches rather than understand. You have to remember it is just hollywood. Pat Devin said in an interview her hope from the craft was that it would bring peole to the bookstore who would then buy a book on wicca or druidisim or witchcraft as a whole and that it may bring someone to the arms of the goddess. Screaming and fighting at a theater in protest of something that is clearly hollywood and came straight from the fairytell itself (after all hansel and gretel were almost eaten by a witch so of course they would want to irradicate all witches after survival) But to each their own. I truly understand to protect our belief and fight to educate, but that is not the right outlet.
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