WHICH WITCH

Stories abound that depict the modern sorceress as anything but the withered old hags of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Here's a classic exerpt from the play. Scene - the three witches enter a dark cave and sit about a centered cauldron with contents boiling:

1st Witch - "In the poison'd entrails throw

 

                      Toad, that under cold stone, 

                      Days and nights has thirty-one; 

                      Swelter'd venom sleeping got, 

                      Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!" 

          ALL. -  "Double, double toil and trouble; 

                      Fire burn, and caldron bubble." 

     2 WITCH.  "Fillet of a fenny snake, 

                      In the caldron boil and bake; 

                      Eye of newt, and toe of frog, 

                      Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, 

                      Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, 

                      Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,— 

                      For a charm of powerful trouble, 

                      Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." 

            ALL.  "Double, double toil and trouble; 

                      Fire burn, and caldron bubble."

The modern 'witch' is sexy, seductive, and saucy ergo - the triplet from the hit tv show Charmed:

These gals don't just pack a punch, vanquish demons,

and other evil forces, they sizzle on screen, own a business

or hold down glam jobs like photographer, and have relationship issues just like 'normal' gals. 

The question is, what type of witch / sorceress do you prefer?

Do you like to read a book or see a movie or watch a TV show that

paints these paranormal princesses as every-day girls with a penchant 

for potions, or do you want them to frighten you, taunt you with their

powers, toy with mere mortals and use them as their playthings like

the girls in The Craft: