The historic connection between witchcraft and drugs and sex also has undoubted appeal. Here is a set of beliefs that claim to be part of an extremely ancient religion. Yet this is a religion in which drugs and free sexuality are not condemned, but might be encouraged. Modern witchcraft bears little resemblance to the witchcraft of the Middle Ages or to witchcraft in still primitive, preliterate societies. The one common theme running through modern witchcraft is the practice of and belief in things forbidden by God in the Bible as occultic.
Witches sppear openly on television.
Every high school is said to have its own witch. In Cleveland you can rent a witch to liven up a party. There are some 80,000 persons practicing white magic in the United States, with 6,000 in Chicago alone. Cheers and whoops went up for the goddesses of yore - Isis, Astara, Demeter, Artemis, etc. Witchcraft is aiding the women in their search for roots and rituals - without the connotations of evil usually associated with witchcraft.