Witchcraft Through the Ages: The 90s

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[ScarletRavenswood]

How would you define witchcraft in the 90s? Share below in the comments! 😆

[MadisonSquareCosplay]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Charmed, and The Craft are responsible for my journey in witchcraft. I even have a black kitten now named Salem. This past decade would be good to look at. With the Charmed remake, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Secret Circle, The Order, and the English translated shows from others countries on Netflix involving witches, there’s just so much to look at. Not to mention all the new social media platforms, like Instagram and TikTok (witch tok), there’s lots of new and easy ways for witches, and those just starting with the craft, to be able to communicate with each other that we didn’t have in the 90s and early 2000s.

[kaotic_fabel]

I feel like when The Craft came out it influenced a whole generation of young witches. I remember after watching, my mom taking me and my best friend to Barnes and Noble to buy us witchcraft books, I also had my first cappuccino that day. I still have most of the books, minus a Silver Ravenwoolf one my pet rat had a particular liking too. We read them everywhere and when we wanted to do a few spells, she even took us shopping for supplies. I was a preteen, so nothing serious was done at the time, a self love spell, some protection spells, ect. I was lucky to have suck a supportive parent.

[akashicsong]

Definitely spent a lot of time watching Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series multiple times, but the Craft is VERY responsible for my foray into formal witchcraft studies which began in 1998.

[Anarchyacresfarmstead]

The Craft was definitely to blame for my initial interest. It brought out what I already knew about myself, without

[lis]

Love this. Just go backwards in time from here

[northerlyartemis]

Ah, I loved this! The nostalgia! I was a 90s teen. I remember seeing The Craft for the first time as an isolated awkward gothic teen and being completely blown away. Then I was in my local Waterstones one day and saw ‘Bucklands Complete Book of Witchcraft’....WHAT?!
Could witchcraft be real?! I snatched it up, bought it and read it on the bus on the way home....With my backpack up behind it so no one would see. After that I was hooked. I went back and bought all the witchcraft books I could, ‘Wicca’ by Scott Cunningham, ‘To Ride a Silver Broomstick’ by Silver Ravenwolf....I devoured them in my room and made my first athame from a stolen kitchen knife😂! And I watched all the witchy TV shows I could. Charmed was too cheesy but I wanted to be Willow Rosenberg, Sally Owens, Sarah, Sabrina. When my mother found out she laughed at me and called it a phase. Spoiler alert-It wasn’t.

I’m 37 now and have had so many wonderful witchy adventures, attended rituals at ancient sites, and danced with all night with a voodoo priestess at a witchcraft festival. My Craft has evolved so much since those days of whispered rituals in my childhood bedroom. It’s a wonderful, positive part of my life and I love seeing this new generation discover it. Thank you for the video. It really made me smile!

[Thewitchescookery]

Ohhh the sneaking the witchcraft books - I well remember that haha once I went to the library to ask if they had anything on the topic and the lady kept my library card to talk to my parents 😅🤣 Luckily my parents didn't care

[joshuaanderson]

I was lucky to have a mom that got caught up in the late 90's craze. She was obsessed with Practical Magic, Charmed, Buffy, and probably a few things I'm forgetting. My mom adopting Wicca is what made finding Norse Paganism easier for me starting in the early 2000's. I live in the Denver metro area so we were lucky to have a variety of witchy shops in the area, and honestly even though I didn't read any of them seeing the Silver Ravenwolf books, especially to ride a silver broomstick brought me so many flashbacks of a simpler time. I've come a long way, but some part of me misses the freedom of just walking to Metamorphosis (our closest local shop) and browsing around for hours, talking to Connie the owner and just... not knowing what I was looking for, but constantly having this feeling of hope and joy and that good things were just around the corner. Thank you so much for that. Could you do the 00's soon? If so, thank you very much.

[gaventer]

I was born in the early 90's. Movies such as The Craft, Practical Magic AND of course the series Charmed is really what got me interested in witchcraft & paganism. It opened up the door for me to a whole new world.

[DaatDarling]

This video gives me nostalgia for before I was born, I'm OBSESSED.

[Liam-nfdp]

The mid to late 1800s spiritual movement would be interesting.

[aradcohen]

About "The Craft" Fairuza Bulk the acttress who played Nancy Downs she also was a practicing wiccan

[Ink-dbws]

Honestly, I came here for witchcraft-based movie recommendations, but might I just say this video is wonderfully made I loved it. I love seeing the whole perspective of the 90s from a witch who was there herself. Thank you so much for sharing!

[magister.mortran]

The 90s was also for me the time to explore paganism. In that time both, paganism and witchcraft were inseparably intertwined, but magick never convinced me as being real.
Could you make a video about witchcraft during the Renaissance, which was also the time of the Inquisition?

[littlegreenfarm]

Damn, this has me all over it. I was born in 87, the craft was the first movie that made me really rethink what I knew about everything else. I always knew that I didn't belong to the christianity group but didn't even know where to begin. I have always felt a connection to things like that, but honestly didn't think it was "real" until recently! This past year has been eye opening for me and am learning so much. Blair witch used to be one of my favorite movies and I didn't really know why lol love your videos, they've truly taught me so much!

[priestessoftheancientflame]

The Craft was THE movie to lead me to witchcraft :) The rise of the internet made it so easy to find witches, books and contents about witchcraft and to had contact to other witches.

[Pschychotically]

Would be interested in the Victorian and/or Edwardian age. Of course not only in connection to the UK.

And also witchcraft in Ancient Rome.

[DefenestrateYourself]

I wouldn’t mind a 90s part II video also!

[ainerosemcgowan]

As a teen of the 90s, this was a fun walk down Memory Lane. :-) Thanks a bunch, Scarlett!