{"id":671,"date":"2006-06-03T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2006-06-03T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T22:08:00","slug":"671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Witches of TV<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a post titled “Farewell, Primetime Pagans,” Idol Chatter blogger Ellen Leventry marks the end of Charmed<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while the show took artistic, action-driven license, it also provided a decent representation of a belief system not often portrayed on television. Reviewer Wren Walker<\/a> noted that while warlocks don’t actually try to steal witches’ powers, “The pronunciations were good, the tools were explained well, and some ethical considerations were mentioned. The altars looked messy enough to be real–I guess not even Hollywood magick do anything about wax drippings–and the sisters wore-gasp!-regular clothing even when casting spells!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Witches of TV In a post titled “Farewell, Primetime Pagans,” Idol Chatter blogger Ellen Leventry marks the end of Charmed. And while the show took artistic, action-driven license, it also provided a decent representation of a belief system not often portrayed on television. 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But their portrayal of witches as goth teenage girls with (somewhat severe) psychological problems just rubs me the wrong\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"movies\"","block_context":{"text":"movies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=867","url_meta":{"origin":671,"position":2},"title":"Teen Witches and Sociologists","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self, a sociological study of young Pagan Witches, will be shipping in a few days from Rutgers University Press.I have heard co-authors Helen Berger and Doug Ezzy give presentations from their research, which is excellent.From the Rutgers University Press catalog:As Helen A.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12603,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12603","url_meta":{"origin":671,"position":3},"title":"Interview with Helen Berger, Leading Scholar of Paganism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"At his blog, now called On New and Alternative Religions, Ethan Doyle While interviews Helen Berger, one of the leading American scholars of contemporary Paganism. Since completing her PhD research on the early modern witch trials in the 1980s, Berger has devoted her career to the sociological analysis of modern-day\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/helen-berger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14146,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14146","url_meta":{"origin":671,"position":4},"title":"All Those Witches: Caroline Tully Sorts Them Out","author":"Chas S. 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