{"id":115,"date":"2004-02-14T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:24:32","slug":"teen-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Teen Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are saying that the “teen witch” craze, symbolized by the 1996 movie The Craft<\/em><\/a>, has peaked. I don’t think so. My latest Llewellyn Publications<\/a> reviewer’s catalog recently arrived, and I saw that Silver Ravenwolf’s Teen Witch<\/em><\/a> had been redesigned. Whereas the former cover art had something in common with the poster\/box art for The Craft<\/em>, the new cover seems more in common with last year’s movie Thirteen<\/em><\/a>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s all about Pouty. Adolescent. Sexuality.<\/p>\n

In his review essay “Sifting the Ashes,” an expose of the tobacco industry (collected in the book How To Be Alone<\/em>, Jonathan Frantzen desconstructs the industry-funded anti-smoking ads aimed at teens and comments how “several antitobacco newspaper ads offer . . . the image of a preadolescent girl holding a cigarette. The models are not real smokers, yet despite their phoniness, they’re utterly sexualized by their cigarettes. The horror of underage smoking veils a horror of teen and preteen sexuality.”<\/p>\n

Witchcraft, the new cigarette?<\/p>\n

On a more positive note, a Colorado Witch describes sitting in on an interview of several teen Wiccans by a National Public Radio reporter.<\/p>\n

“I spent the afternoon in the upstairs of the Oh My Goddess coffee house in Denver, listening to Barbara Bradford Hagerty of NPR interview 6 teenage Wiccans and one Christian teen learning about Wicca. She was amazed at how articulate, intelligent, and self-aware they were. She’s planning on doing a segment or show about teens and Wicca. They wouldn’t stop talking! She used more than one minidisc to record, which she says never happens in an interview. The 6 Wiccan teens were all raised Wiccan, more or less.<\/p>\n

“She spoke briefly to most of the parents and to me; she may talk to me again in a couple of days if she can on her way to the airport. She is a colleague of Margot Adler’s, and therefore actually knew something about the topic. She asked each of the Wiccan teens if they thought it was a phase that they would grow out of, and the general consensus was ‘No. This is who I am.’ It was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n

“Based on the kids that were there today, I have to say I think that the future of Paganism is in pretty capable hands.”<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4\/29\/07:<\/strong> I had not looked at this post for a while, but it appears to me that the cover displayed, which is on Llewellyn’s web site, is not the one that I described as “pouty” a couple of years ago. Does anyone know for sure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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