#THE witch

[isagrimorie]

One part of Princess Weekes’ video on The Penguin & Agatha Harkness and she noted something I’ve been thinking about Agatha Harkness.

Just like Rio Vidal isn’t just a Green Witch but THE Green Witch.

Agatha Harkness isn’t just a Witch, Agatha Harkness is The Witch.

Or as Weekes put it:

“Well, she (Agatha) is The Witch. The social Pariah the overtly confident, the mouthy woman who has no husband. Because if you look at what men said about women during this period, what made them able to be witches was clear.

In the 1480s when Kramer and Spranger, authors of the Witch Hunters manual, Malleus Maleficurum described women as Liars, unfaithful, immoderate, sexually insatiable, and downright evil.

She isn't the feminist reimagining of The Witch. She’s the patriarchal nightmare of the Witch, which I think is great!”

In the MCU, she’s everything a stereotypical Witch tropes is based on and more.

Agatha spoke the truth when she bragged that the movie version of the Wicked Witch is based on her.

This makes all of Lilia’s ranting about how the halloween-industry complex co-opted their Witch culture so funny, when the reason for those tropes in the MCU is probably Agatha’s fault! (All Along).

Agatha loves being a Witch and yet doesn’t like her fellow Witches. She’s the Witch and the Witch Killer. Agatha is so many things, each layer as complex and contradictory as the next.

Agatha was built to be a Witch.

[anathemafiction]

Is there a particular reason you decided to make The Witch be of Japanese (if i understood correctly?) descent? Is the corruption/the witch's powers somehow connected to asian folklore? I ask cause I love the parallels and connections between different folklores, and Europe and Asia have some similar ideas about witches. It's so magical how cultures that drastically different have so many things deeply in common.

Honestly? It was to open up the world a little bit more — the Church's "Enlightenment Lands" are so closed off to the rest of the world that most people don't know or almost forget that it's bigger. This is how the Church wants it to be. The Witch reminds the characters that there are further horizons and, of course, you, the reader, not to think this fictional world just encompasses Southern Europe and North Africa.

But, as I developed the plot, I tied her story with another character who also comes from distant lands and reminds people that there's a world outside of the Church's iron reach.

[bugsmoverocks]

a little nervous to share this because i am in no way a good character designer or anything BUT! i've been thinking a lot abt the wayfarer and the witch from the song of the wayfarer lately so here's my personal interpretation of them!!

to avoid making this post a wall of text i'm just going to ramble about my interpretation of their story below the cut so its only a wall of text if you want it to be!

so ya!! i tried to give them similar characteristics to kiwi and miriam (both in appearance and personality) but still having them be their own people. they're not connected to kiwi and miriam in any way they just happen to be similar people in some ways ha. (oh also the wayfarer's outfit is inspired a lot off of wirt from otgw !)

also i should say before i ramble about their story that i don't personally interpret the wayfarer and the witch as being in a romantic relationship. i think they were very close of course but everyone who saw them hanging out together just sorta...assumed it was romantic (similar to how some characters in wandersong assume kiwi and miriam are in a romantic relationship too). but there's no rule book saying you can't be in love with someone platonically !!

okay im gonna try to summarize their story as best as i can so i guess ill start off by saying that i think the two's initial interactions when they first met were. a bit awkward. the witch was not very trusting of the wayfarer for the longest time. with tensions between Rulle and Chaandesh going on, and also just not being used to accepting kindness in general, she sorta just assumed the wayfarer must secretly hate her just for being a witch like other people in Rulle do, and that her kindness must be a trick or something.

but of course that wasn't true, the wayfarer really did just want to be her friend. and after many days of the two just happening to meet in that same forest they met in over and over again, the witch started to believe that. it got to the point where the two would go to the forest just to see each other.

but unfortunately things couldn't stay happy forever. one day, with really no explanation or warning, the wayfarer came down with an illness bad enough to leave her bedridden. the witch of course did her best to help her, but nothing was seeming to work, not even any of her healing magic or potions. after all of her options were exhausted, all she could really do was just stay with the wayfarer and keep her company.

despite everything the witch tried to do, the wayfarer ended up passing away one night. a particularly beautiful night, where there were no clouds in the sky and the stars shone bright. before she passed the wayfarer told the witch that she would be up with those same stars, watching over her, so they really weren't leaving each other. but it still did nothing to stop the witch from feeling a deep and heavy grief at the loss of her only friend.

upon the wayfarer's passing, the people of Rulle immediately put the blame for it on the witch, believing she had cast a deadly curse on her. she became exiled from the kingdom, and the people's distrust of witches only grew worse. so she left, taking nothing back with her - not even her own broom. nobody knows what happened to her after that.

...uhh ya thats it i guess!! there's still some little details ive thought up of for them but this post is already long enough. i dont really know how to end this. ok bye!!

[rhera]

THE INNOCENTS (1961) THE OTHERS (2001) CRIMSON PEAK (2015) THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947) THE VVITCH (2015) THE BLOOD ROSE (1970) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969) THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK (1962) THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946)

[bebs-art-gallery]

Dark Prince

— by Betty Jiang

[seasonofhorror]

THE WITCH

2015, dir. Robert Eggers

[ladiesblr]

THE WITCH (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

[cryptke]

[alexstewart]

THE WITCH (2015) Dir. Robert Eggers

[dailyflicks]

THE VVITCH 2015, dir. Robert Eggers

[possession]

Jennifer's Body (2009) Black Swan (2010) Gone Girl (2014) The Witch (2014) The Neon Demon (2016) The Love Witch (2016) Suspiria (2018) Hereditary (2018) X (2022)

[deadringers2023]

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY as Thomasin in The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

[junkfoodcinemas]

#sorrynotsorry #whatblackphilipactuallysaid

The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

[bugsmoverocks]

o and i drew this too

[dushku]

HALLOWEEN MARATHON 2024 ↳ day 14 🎃 THE WITCH (2015) | dir. robert eggers