Dude, who even knows.
Post reblogged from sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com with 425 notes
What was even going on in the late 90′s, like even before the wizard boy books, where this small but noticeable slice of American culture was suddenly like “we still hate lots of other people for no reason but we have GOT to teach kids that witches are unfairly persecuted by society” like it was even a critical plot point of a whole Scooby Doo movie? It’s like the media suddenly wanted me as a millenial child to be angrier about a couple dozen ergot-fueled witch trials 300 years ago than basically anything else to ever happen or still happen in the whole world.
Internalization of the ‘70s new age spiritual explosion being followed by an '80s Christian reassertion. Add in weird processing of second-wave feminism and you get Wicca.