Ah, yes… It’s blatantly untrue from a magical and psychological standpoint. People try to pass it off as “our thoughts give off electromagnetic vibrations that affect reality” which is pseudoscientific bs.
As far as magic goes, it’s bunk too. “Just believe hard enough and everything falls into place” no, so much no.
I also really hate it when people use it to say addressing problems… *worsens* them and ignoring then makes them go away??? What nonsense???
And they even have the gall to say positive thinking will solve everything wrong in your life– not medical treatment, not communication, not addressing mental health issues, not meeting basic needs.
Yeah I just hate it
AGREED.
It straight up victim blames people for the things that happens to them. Either they didnt believe hard enough OR they were thinking negative thoughts and attracted it to themselves. Thinking negatively occassionally and within reason (and if you have more, a therapist might need to help), is perfectly normal and is not the reason that bad things happen to you.
Just as the converse is true, that good things dont happen to you because you think about unicorns. Or because you think really hard about getting a new job else where, does not mean thinking about it caused it to happen. There is some level of difference here.
Plus it begs the question what is positive and what is negative in thoughts? Because those are subjective.
And also magically this is not a great paradigm and breaks when dealing with other paradigms, like animistic paradigms or orthopraxic paradigms (where your actions, not your thoughts or beliefs are what make the thing go) or Divine Will paradigms. It basically operates only its own little spectrum and feeds into its self fulling prophecies and imo, it sucks.
I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.
The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.
Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.
So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.
“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.
Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.
Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.
Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.
So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe.
that’s much more interesting and substantive than “brave, smart, evil, miscellaneous”
To any of the male witches trying to wade through this new wave of “no-men” witchcraft, all I have to say is this;
– You are still a witch, their opinion won’t suddenly kick you out of the club
– Their opinion is based on a fabricated, racist history maintained by new age writing and poor academic practice
– Wicca (distinct from witchcraft but still related) was started officially by a man ( Gardner) so their claim literally falls apart at the 50’s for Wiccan witches
– it’s fair that women want to avoid the discrimination and prejudice they experience from men everyday, so ride it out whilst being respectful of why some women are pushing men away
At the end of the day, no witch on tumblr is in the position to tell you who you are or what you can do
What a great day to remember men can’t be witches and they can get their own fucking terms and to stop stealing ours
Look at this definitions 😂 when you are argue with this it implies not just that men can’t be witches, but also that all are riding brooms, are evil and are old ugly hags!
Sounds like someone needs a Snickers
What a thoughtful reaction. I’m impressed!
“Damn, how dare she not get angry and fall for my trap! Now how else am I going to spread my hatred of women while still seeming progressive?”
Oh shit you got me! 😱
Wonderful! Males can be witches y’all. End of the discussion.
Of course we can be witches! And just because such a disgusting TERF tries to through us under the bus won’t change that I’m male witch!
Do we have to go over the historical evidence of male witches, not to mention that you practically cannot practice any form of contemporary witchcraft that hasn’t had some influence from male witches.
Firstly, many times, certain regions had mostly men prosecuted for witchcraft. In Iceland, 92% of the accused witches were men. In Estonia, 60% of the accused were men, many whom were actual sorcerers and healers.
In the witch trials of Moscow, Russia, two-thirds of those accused were male.
In one case of the witch Panics, in Mora Sweden,
fifteen boys over the age of 16 were executed for witchcraft.
Insurrectionalist witch of sixteen century Scotland, Isobel Gowdie, among her genuine claims of witchcraft, claimed to have male members of her coven and to have had sexual intercourse with them on a number of occasions.
We have George Pickingill of Essex who was a genuine cunning man and had a reputation as a powerful witch.
Other cunningfolk and witches to mention are the Baltic wolf wizards, the Benendanti of Italy, the Werewolf of Normandy, John Traizore of East Agelica, William Wycherley, Aberdeenshire cunning man Andro Man, William Barckseale, The Cornish Pellar, and so fourth. The Bogomilic witch of the Baltic, the Trolldomr of Sweden, and many more. The male Chovhai of my people?
Then comes contemporary tradition, to witch almost all is influenced by Gerard Gardner (Gardnerian witchcraft), Alex Sander (Alexandrian Wicca), Robert Cochrane (Clan of Tubal-Cain), and Victor Henry Anderson (Feri). Ronald White and George Stadards Regency? The 1864 current? The DeSayvok covine?
What tradition could you claim that hasn’t been influenced by these figures? What practice doesn’t draw from these men, or the women who had their husbands act with them
Then finally, the unspoken men, queer, trans women and men of the last several centuries? The slaughtered men and boys at the hands of authorities? The genuine queer witches prosecuted by such vile orthodoxy?
In short, there has never been a time when witch has not included men, not included queer and trans bodies, not been defined so tightly as by the tumblr terf, so powerless that all they can do is protest as they try to claim a space that was never exclusively theirs to begin with. What will you do, bark a complaint?
I for one, and my covine, will continue as we do open to queer and trans folk, faggots and breeders, men and women and androgynous, irregardless of the whining of some weak-ass internet feminist that has a bone to pick with that which is “Other”, the very crux of witchcraft as the means to the oppressed and outsider, an irony for certain.
Know the vulture, for he is your destiny all the same as the rest of us, fair and foul.
How can people deny the validity of male witches when men HAVE LITERALLY BEEN WITCHES FOREVER
I’m so glad that I haven’t seen any of this ‘men can’t be witches’ bs come up on my dash directly (i.e. i don’t follow any trash people)
I don’t know how anyone could think that /anyone/ can’t be a witch. The only requirement for being a witch is identifying as one and doing magic shit.
All witches, and also non-witches, are welcome on my blog, regardless of gender, sex, identity, race, religion, colour or any other aspect of yourself.
There have always been male witches, there will always be male witches. Fuck off with this already @curiouslesbianseperation . I’ve seen too much anti male witch stuff (all from terfs too btw, who are gross to begin with) lately and honest to gods I’m loosing my patience -___-
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