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Season of the Witch (1972) After her inattentive butthead of a husband gets abusive, Joan starts hanging out with the new witch in town. In no time, Joan is learning how to cast spells which allow her to seduce the neighborhood hunk. As you might expect, the outlook for Joan's husband becomes bleak. Word has it the film's producers wanted Romero to churn out a Skinemax (or worse) type of flick about frustrated wives who smoke pot and become whores, but the director had more feminist ideas in mind. Mostly forgotten in favor of Romero's better movies, it's managed to develop a cult following amongst the witchcraft is female empowerment crowd.
TIL: As author Noelle Kaiser explains, interpreting the witchcraft of the past as some feminist empowerment fantasy does not align with historical evidence. Those accused were not proto-women's rights activists, but rather healers, midwives, and the occasional oddball unfairly scapegoated during periods of fear and instability. Worse, she notes, "these claims not only misrepresent history but also pose a spiritual danger... The focus on personal spiritual power, pagan rituals, and occult practices distracts from the true wisdom found in Christ and the teachings of the Church." In short, the belief in witchcraft as a feminist power grab most often leads to anger, narcissism, and spiritual collapse.
I HAVE SOME NOTES: One more week of hastily scribbled notes on my daily Scripture readings.
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