756 Quotes About Witches

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest bitch of all?

People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears, their spit and blood.

The Witch Queen comes on wings of night.The Witch Queen has your heart's delight.Hold him, hold him, hold on tight.Hide him, hide him, out of sight.

The most common form of sacred space to the witch is the magick circle. The circle is a symbol of the infinite and finite. It is everything and nothing. It is the Ouroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, symbolic of the never-ending cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death, and a symbol of the cosmos without beginning or end.

The witch is notorious shape-shifter and comes in many guises. More than anything, though, the witch is a shifting and shadowy symbol of female power and a force for subverting the status quo. She is also a vessel that contains our conflicting feelings about female power: our fear of it, our desire for it, our hope that it can and will grow stronger despite the flames that are thrown at it.

In the fairytales, when the knight in shining armor is killed defending his fair maiden, she brings him back to life with a magical kiss, and they live happily ever after. But this wasn’t that sort of fairytale.

They’re witch marks (...) They’re what people used to draw around their windows and fireplaces in the old days to stop evil getting in. But in this case, it’s likely they’re trying to stop evil from getting out.

Because in the end, as sad as it seems, there’s always another witch to burn, isn’t there?

Things had to balance. You couldn’t set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked for long. All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.