The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/reviews)
Beatrix Kondo examines Witch Hat Atelier, a manga and anime set in a world where magic is a craft that can be learned by anyone but has been carefully suppressed as “something you have to be born with” – and what that premise might say to modern Witches.
Stacy Psaros reviews the current exhibition at the Toledo Art Museum, which focuses on magic and curses in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia.
Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag’s 2017 graphic novel “The Witch Boy.”
“The witch in this story does not try to make it look natural,” writes Meg Elison of this 1942 classic. “She doesn’t play fair, split the difference, or win graciously for the sake of appearances. She wins utterly.”
Manny Tejeda y Moreno reviews “Slavic Native Faith” by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, a study of the umbrella of reconstructionist religions sometimes known as Ridnovirstvo or Rodnovery. The book is free to download until April 14.
