{"id":4334,"date":"2012-06-03T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2012-06-03T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:03:09","slug":"more-on-pop-witchcraft-in-movies-and-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"More on Pop Witchcraft in Movies and TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

At The Juggler<\/em>, Zan continues the series on witches in pop culture with a look at the 1990s.<\/a><\/p>\n

No, I did not know that Charmed <\/em>wins the category of “longest-running hour-long series that features a trio of women.” But then it started after M. and I had moved up into the hills where, not being committed enough to TV to get a satellite dish, we get by with one or two channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Juggler, Zan continues the series on witches in pop culture with a look at the 1990s. No, I did not know that Charmed wins the category of “longest-running hour-long series that features a trio of women.” But then it started after M. and I had moved up into the hills where, not being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,153,29],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-television","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-17U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5257,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5257","url_meta":{"origin":4334,"position":0},"title":"Ghost Girls: Witchcrap or Pop Occulture Fun?","author":"Chas S. 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In order of creation, we watched these three movies:\u00a0 Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985), Hocus Pocus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9269,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9269","url_meta":{"origin":4334,"position":3},"title":"For the Friends of Black Phillip","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday's post on movies related to Salem witchcraft mentioned The VVitch and the character of Black Phillip, the billy goat. (His real name is Charlie and he \"still gives his director nightmares.\") There\u00a0 is a billy goat in my magical menagerie too \u2014 not quite the same, but close enough\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"goats\"","block_context":{"text":"goats","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=goats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/live-deliciously.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/live-deliciously.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/live-deliciously.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/live-deliciously.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":918,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=918","url_meta":{"origin":4334,"position":4},"title":"Witchcraft on the Screen and on the Page","author":"Chas S. 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