Modern-day witches are reclaiming witchcraft’s dark history. YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock. It seems being a witch is not something people tend to be initiated into, as with Christianity.

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But at the witch paddle, and during Halloween in general, she said, “you can be something more.” “For me, it’s very surreal being on the water and looking out at everyone,” she said.