Em Mar 14
Thinking about that time someone called me a "sweet summer child" and I very much feel like calling me a "bitter winter elder" would be so much more appropriate.
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@Em0nM4stodon as a manthing I’m kinda proud I get called “witch”. it’s a title, isn’t it!?
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@promovicz @Em0nM4stodon Yeah, 'witch' was originally a gender-neutral term for one who trucks with the devil for the illusion of magic powers. For, ahem, *reasons*, it came to be coded as female. This was recent enough that Tolkien called the leader of the Nazgûl the Witch-King without irony.

Interestingly, most of the people executed for witchcraft in Scandinavia were men due to different cultural ideas about magic.

Mar 14 at 7:46pmWeb