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Stephen A. Mitchell is Harvard’s resident expert on witchcraft and the supernatural. The former master of Eliot House and current head of the Folklore and Mythology concentration, he’s equally comfortable teaching classes on witchcraft, expounding on Vikings and bashing Hillary Clinton...
Many cultures possess a cultural category we would describe as witchcraft. Typically these figures embody characteristics that break taboos about harmony, sex, children and other things valued by the culture. In western Europe, witchcraft of this sort was further shaped by Christian theology and ended in the construction of the witch we think of today...
...noted that some conservative Christian parents think the Harry Potter books "promote witchcraft and Satanism." I don't understand why people would discourage reading this remarkable series, even if their religion holds that magic is bad. Rowling writes about goodness triumphing over evil, and although many of the characters are clearly either good or bad, there are also witches and wizards in the gray area in between. Even if the Potter books, as Yale professor Harold Bloom predicted, end up "in the dustbins everywhere," readers worldwide, young and old, will remember them as fascinating, magical stories of bravery and love...
...shocked by those who believe that the Potter books promote witchcraft and so are bad for children to read. Have these critics forgotten the timeless classics, like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella, all of which include magic and even witches? The story of Harry Potter will be yet another classic tale that will generously feed the imagination of generations to come. LAUREN STEWART Geneseo...
...holy bonfire" in December 2001, in which Harry Potter was among the books burned. The incident was taken out of context, says Brock. "The media made me look like Hitler." But that said, he still would do it again. "They [the books] are totally, completely, entirely about witchcraft," he told TIME. "The next book, I understand, will be 700 pages long, and it's just going to be going deeper and deeper into witchcraft. Anyone who thinks that's healthy, I don't understand. God says in Deuteronomy that witchcraft is an abomination. Whatever God hates, I hate...