Is witchcraft on the rise?

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A significant amount of the growing Neopagan and Wiccan denominations and traditions utilize “witchcraft”;mystical rituals, elixers, and spells.

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“Witchcraft” is usually what people mean when they use paganism in a derogatory sense (as opposed to its more philosophical  strains), and it is indeed endemic to all societies which trust the senses over the intellect, including our own.

Paganism, stretched out as far as one can take it, is not endemic in our society. Wiccans, the largest “pagan” group, number less than 1.5 million people and the total “pagan” + new age folks probably number less than 1% in adherence.

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“Witchcraft” is usually what people mean when they use paganism in a derogatory sense (as opposed to its more philosophical  strains), and it is indeed endemic to all societies which trust the senses over the intellect, including our own.

Paganism, stretched out as far as one can take it, is not endemic in our society. Wiccans, the largest “pagan” group, number less than 1.5 million people and the total “pagan” + new age folks probably number less than 1% in adherence.

Group affiliation isn’t really appropriate when it comes to “new age” beliefs - 30% of all Americans believe in astrology after all. Besides, idols like nationalism and identity politics are just as pagan as tarot and the zodiac.

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Fine, the wide usage of taking astrology and zodiac signs seriously might extend it, but can we really say that it’s on the rise since the 1990s? I don’t see much care for occultism nor neoshamanism among either the youth nor culture at large outside of anti-patriarchal witches whom are small now. It doesn’t seem to, and this is the important part, be taken as seriously nor as becoming more socially acceptable than the monopoly American Christianity has.