Much understanding about witches has been stigmatized because of pop culture and films throughout the years, so people’s true knowledge of the subject of witchcraft is from a false set of ideas and beliefs. Though the movie franchise “Harry Potter” portrays witchcraft as a source of magic through wands and spells, that isn’t completely true in the actual world of witchcraft. The same can be said for the popular adaptation of “The Princess and the Frog,” where Louisiana Vodou is depicted negatively and assumed as a practice of evil instead of what Vodou truly is: healing rituals and the celebration of ancestral spirits.
That said, it’s important to educate ourselves on the reality of witchcraft and how it is truly practiced in multiple cultures around the world to get a better understanding of places different than our own because not all witchcraft is the same; some can be perceived as negative.
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