Waking the Witch; Audiobook; Narration; English; Female; Feminism
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Young Adult (18-35)Transcript
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The witch is a notorious shapeshifter and she comes in many guises a hag and a pointy hat cackling madly as she boils a pot of bones. A scarlet lipped seductress, slipping a potion into the drink of her unsuspecting paramo, a cross dressing French revolutionary who hears the voices of angels and Saints. A perfectly coiffed suburban housewife twitching her nose to change her circumstances at will. Despite her husband's protests, a woman dancing in New York City's central park with her coven to mark the change of the seasons or a new lunar phase. The witch has a green face and a fleet of flying monkeys. She wears scarves and leather and lace. She lives in Africa on the island of a, in a tower in a chicken leg hut in Peoria, Illinois. She lurks in the forests of fairy tales in the gilded frames of paintings in the plot lines of sitcoms and y A novels and between the bars of ghostly blues songs. She is solitary. She comes in threes. She's a member of a coven. Sometimes she's a, he, she is stunning. She is hideous. She is insidious. She is ubiquitous. She is our downfall she is our deliverance. Our witches say as much about us as they do about anything else. For better and for worse. More than anything though. The witch is a shining and shadowy symbol of female power and a force for subverting the status quo. No matter what form she takes, she remains an electric source of magical agitation that we can all plug into whenever we need a high voltage charge. She is also a vessel that contains our conflicting feelings about female power, our fear of it, our desire for it and our hope that it can and will grow stronger despite the flames that are thrown at it. Whether the witch is depicted as villainous or Valorous. She is always a figure of freedom, both its loss and its gain. She is perhaps the only female archetype who is an independent operator, virgins, whores, daughters, mothers, wives, each of these is defined by whom she is sleeping with or not, the care that she is giving or that is given to her or some sort of symbiotic debt that she must eventually pay. The witch owes nothing. That is what makes her dangerous and that is what makes her divine.