The Witch Studies Reader brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing studies of witchcraft.

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction to the Reader: Manifesting Witch Studies / Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward  1 I. The Colonial Encounter 1. Witchcraft in My Community: Healing Sex and Sexuality / Tushabe Wa Tushabe, Patricia Humura, and Ruth Asiimwe  23 2. “What Is a Witch?”: Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge / Nathan Snaza 3. Irish Feminist Witches: Using Witchcraft and Activism to Heal from Violence and Trauma / Shannon Hughes Spence  46 4. Whose Craft?: Contentions in Open and Closed Practice in Contemporary Witchcraft(s) / Apoorva Joshi and Ethel Brooks  60 II. Lineages of Healing 5.  “You Deserve, Baby!”:  Spiritual Cocreation, Black Witches, and Feminism / Marcelitte Failla  75 6. Resurrecting Granny: A Brief Excavation of Appalachian Folk Magic / Brandy Renee McCann  90 7.  “Some Decks May Be Stacked Against Us but This Deck Is Ours”:  Justice-Centered Tarot in and against the New Age / Krystal Cleary  105 8. Ecstatic Desires: Queerness and the Witch’s Body / Simon Clay and Emma Quilty  118 9. Deitsch Magic Past and Future / Eric Steinhart  131 10.  “We Are Here with Our Rebellious Joy”: Witches and Witchcraft in Turkey / Ayça Kurtoğlu 144 11. Fortune-Telling, Women’s Friendship, and Divination Commodification in Contemporary Italy / Morena Tartari  158 III. Killing the Witch 12. A Feminist Theory of Witch Hunts / Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan  175 13. Occult Violence and the Savage Slot: Understanding Tanzanian Witch-Killings in Historical and Ethnographic Context / Amy Nichols-Belo  190 14. Going All the Way: From Village to Supreme Court for a Witch-Killing in Central India / Helen MacDonald  205 15. Contemporary Trends in Witch-Hunting in India / Shashank Shekhar Sinha  210 16. Bewitching Gender History / Adrianna L. Ernstberger  233 IV. Art, Aesthetic, and Cultural Production 17. Mista Boo: Portrait of a Drag Witch / Isabel Machado  249 18. Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene) / D Ferrett  262 19. Witch’s Guide to the Underground: Sixties Counterculture, Dianic Wicca, and the Cultural Trope of the “Witchy Diva” / Shelina Brown  275 20. A Queer Critical Analysis of Contemporary Representations of the Churail in Hindi Film / Saira Chhibber  289 21. Pakistan’s Churails: Young Feminists Choosing “Witch” Way Is Forward / Maria Amir  304 22. From “Born This Witch” to “Bad Bitch Witch”: A History of Witch Representation in Western Pop Culture / Jaime Hartless and Gabriella V. Smith  318 23. “I Put a Spell on Your and Now You’re Mine”: A Vulvacentric Reading of Witchcraft / Anna Rogel  331 V. Protest and Reclaiming 24. Hexing the Patriarchy: The Revolutionary Aesthetics of W.I.T.C.H. / Carolyn Chernoff  347 25. Witch-Ins and Other Feminist Acts / Tina Escaja and Laurie Essig  361 26. Disappearing Acts: Attending “Witch School” in Brooklyn, New York / Jacquelyn Marie Shannon  372 27. We Are All Witches: My Pagan Journey / Bernadette Barton  388 VI. Witch Epistemologies 28. Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft / Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller  401 29. A Ruderal Witchcraft Manifesto / Margaretha Haughwout and Oliver Kallhammer  420 30. Feminism as a Demon, or, The Difference Witches Make: Chiara Fumai with Carla Lonzi / Nicole Trigg  436 31. Religion and Magic through Feminist Lenses / Mary Jo Neitz and Marion S. Goldman  449 32. Crafting against Capitalism: Queer Longings for Witch Futures / Katie Von Wald and Ap Pierce  464 Contributors  475 Index