Summary
India Rakusen finds out what it means to call yourself a witch today.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, there's a sisterhood. |
| 0:07.0 | We have new sisters. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm going to light the first candle. |
| 0:12.0 | You might think that witches are the stuff of the past, or belong locked in myth. |
| 0:17.0 | She decided she wanted to boil the children to get herself eternal youth from the drink. |
| 0:22.6 | Esme Boggart has one working eye. |
| 0:26.6 | But look again. |
| 0:27.6 | And with it, she stalks the English countryside. |
| 0:31.6 | Even though we're still. Witches are everywhere. |
| 0:40.5 | There is a new life stirring in the darkness. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Indiraakson, and a while ago I found myself strangely drawn to the idea of a spell and the world of magic. |
| 0:56.2 | So I started to talk to witches and found that there were far more of them around than I could ever have imagined. |
| 0:58.9 | But I can get in your cauldron! |
| 1:00.6 | There you go! |
| 1:01.1 | You could sort of cook me up to the knees. |
| 1:02.9 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:03.9 | They're hiding out across the country, |
| 1:05.7 | but also loudly casting spells on Instagram and witch talk. |
| 1:10.5 | I always hesitate to tell this story, to be very honest, |
| 1:14.6 | because I do not do any form of harmful magic or malevolent magic anymore. |
| 1:23.1 | I wanted to know why so many people are drawn to witchcraft. |
| 1:26.9 | There's a crossover of us pushing against, you know, the binaries we're put in, the expectations. |
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