The life of a witch

The life of a witch is social deconstruction.

A witch is a deconstructed person.
Being accused of witchcraft in early modern europe did not mean to be accused of being a human having committed a serious crime. Being a witch meant to have let the soul inside your body rot and having become a new and evil kind of being threatening the core of this reality.

Being a witch means once having been the child, a friend, a lover to someone and suddenly having turned into their deepest fear. It means losing all these parts of yourself. Friends from before might catch you, torture you, and even execute you.

Being a witch means you are not you anymore. There is no you anymore. Your soul has gone bad, and now the cattle has died and the plague has arrived.

When writing the biography of a witch, this is the most important aspect. Having looked suspicious when life became fragile, and then having lost all of humanity.

All my musings on witching dreams and transformations are just a creative reinterpretation of what witches were once accused of for whenever I cannot bare the fragility of my own reality at the moment. This does not change the fact that the most important thing about witches is that they were people believed not to be people anymore.

„Together we can rot their souls“, my witch giggled into our bottle of wine. „I had to fall in love with him.“

I could write about a young woman being executed shortly after being found guilty of witchcraft, but that novel would be short. I am lucky enough to have a witch with me who survived this incident against all odds and had time to explore other dimensions of witching as well.