Recently, modern witchcraft has been on the rise. I am interested to hear some discussion and discourse from your perspective, on any aspect of modern witchcraft. Myself, I try to be respectful of most religions. That said, I have always been a little annoyed by anyone who believes they can, for example, control the weather or read peoples minds, which seems to be the case in this article, and in several witchcraft-related memes and stuff I've seen floating around. In addition, I think the whole idea of witchcraft as an opposition to the status quo is very much a bourgeois/liberal mindset. Instead of using affirmative action to actually work for change, it's turning to faith and a belief in the occult in order to solve your issues. It seems to me to be almost entirely composed of young, upper-middle class white women that have not needed to struggle or known the struggle of other classes. In essence, a liberal reaction to the people in power. Any thoughts? Willing to change my mind.
There was some push in the 1920s and 1930s about a revival of a pre-Christian witch cult that was purported to have been stamped out by the witch trials of the 17th century - which contemporaneously as described here. Most likely this wasn't the case, but there was apparently a growing interest in witchcraft and folklore at the time.
The 60s and 70s had a renewed interest in druidism and neopaganism as well and was the birth of modern Wicca as we understand it (named after Diana or something like that, I can't remember exactly).