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. Witches in the Woods (2020) not so much a witch movie, but a creepy witch-hunt movie that is new and somewhat good. Anya, who plays guitar in the band, agrees, explaining that for her, witchcraft, queerness andpunk are all symbiotic because they are oppositional ideologies. “State persecution for hundreds of years is something that both queer people and witches have in common,” she says. “There’s got to be another reason why so many witches never married, preferring the company of other ‘single’ women instead… Many witches rejected, and continue to reject, compulsory heterosexuality. For that they have historically been punished,” she says, pointing out that many people who reject heteronormative choices are still punished today. They lived with their children in a wonderful, huge, and luxurious mansion in Calabasas, California. It measured 5700 square feet and was a Tuscan-style villa.

Ruby Strangelove Young Witch (2015) a teen witch summons all her powers to rescue her mother from evil forces.

Anya and Yelena share a special and genuine connection, and they recognize their soulmate bond from the moment they meet. And while soulmates can come in the form of friendships, both of them had practically fallen in love since they met. However, life circumstances separate Anya and Yelena, allowing Kate to pursue a relationship with Yelena. Though they appear happy together, their private life faces difficulties. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels and films focus around witchcraft, but we have not included them in this list. That said, Harry himself is a wizard (male form of a witch) at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where his friends, both female and male, also attend. Thus all of these films can be considered as witch movies, but because of how popular Harry Potter is we consider it a sub-genre onto itself. More Witch Movies A depiction of Catholic witch burning in Witchhammer. That is, until her late girlfriend walks through her front door once again Language: English Words: 32,017 Chapters: 6/? Comments: 32 Kudos: 57 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 920

In this alternate story from 'What a Woman,' the Avengers manage to save both Pietro and Anya during the Battle of Sokovia. But Anya's survival has a significant impact on the relationship between Yelena and Kate.

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While this high-school fantasy drama bombed in the box office in the late 80s, it became a staple for young people in the 90s when it aired on HBO and Cinemax. Then in 2007 it became even more of a staple because ABC Family started airing it during their beloved 13 Nights of Halloween series. Like Teen Wolf (1985), Teen Witch gives adolescence a magical spin, where a young woman discovers a new power in sorcery and makes all her dreams come true. The Witches (1990) Anjelica Huston stars as the lead witch in The Witches, aka the Grand High Witch. A 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. Halloweentown (1998) this movie is famous for being aired during Halloween season on the Disney Channel. Dianic Wicca was born out of the second-wave feminist movement and was founded by Zsuzanna Budapest. It “embraces the Goddess but spends little time on her male counterpart,” and has long been associated with lesbianism, while still welcoming any woman. Dianic Wicca focuses on Mother Nature as the “life-giver and life-sustainer.” It promotes the connection and parallels between Mother Nature and women, for example, the act of carrying and birthing life. While most Wiccan paths disallow hexes and curses, Zsuzanna Budapest believes that cursing against those who do wrong by women is perfectly acceptable. Themes of motherhood and sexual deviance were often entangled with diabolical elements in the narratives extracted by the witch-finders. Many 1640s confessions were highly sexualised, describing intercourse with demons. Ellen Driver confessed that, ‘after she were married [to the Devil] he had the carnal use of her but was cold…she further said that being in bed with him she felt of his feet and they were cloven.’ Likewise, Rebecca West slept with and married the Devil. The one-legged widow Elizabeth Clarke had sex with Satan regularly, while Anne Boreham claimed to have witnessed small demons fighting each other for her affection and one emerged victorious and then ‘had use of her body.’ Under the psychological stress of examination, these women drew on past experiences and emotions and fashioned fantasies using the language of demonology. Examiners interpreted unwanted sexual desires as proof of the Devil’s influence over the women’s bodies. The demonic witch-figure came to represent repressed sexual desires.