There are countless movies and stories about witches and the Occult, and the emergence of horror-comics has provided even a new arena for the evaluation and appreciation of witch-tales and stories about the Occult. However, witch-tale comics do not have a single standard-bearing series or avatar like Friday the 13th or Jason that is marketed widely as any kind of pop or cult canon.
While I'm sure I'm going to get heat for such a statement, I'm also fairly certain that if there was a canonical witch-tale series in comics (or movies!), I'd hear about it from friends in the know, and I haven't heard of anything of real published weight!
To that end, I'd like to offer up this civilization symbolic comics-oriented witch-tale to perhaps 'nudge' publishers to seek out something of weighty credible potential for more widespread marketing based on sociocultural value.
Enjoy!
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Hazel was an extremely attractive Romanian-American woman of 25 years-of-age living in Maine (New England) and studied psychology at Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth with-honors, Hazel decided to convert to the Wiccan faith and became a practicing witch in the modern world. She purchased a Ouija board (a 'witchboard') and began invoking the presence of Lucifer (Satan, the fallen angel). Hazel wanted to make a modern compendium of what she deemed to be worthy evidence of modern world trespasses away from the normal domain of Christian faith.
Hazel traveled to NYC and befriended a chic circle of young Wall Street yuppies and discovered a terrible crime-ring involving the murder of young female prostitutes. This observation comprised Hazel's first journal-entry. This NYC crime-ring was based on the exploitation of urban vulnerability, of helpless urban prostitutes who could be treated as meat or slaves of the morally wicked. Hazel called this crime-ring the New York Hood. She cited the ring as a modern example of feminism gone invisible.
Hazel then traveled to England and visited one of the last operating orphanages there and found that a number of the unfortunate orphans housed there were being abused by the caretakers. She took a job at the orphanage as a cook with educational skills and befriended a group of the orphans who'd visit her in her kitchen. Hazel decided to log this orphanage abuse stigmata in her journal as evidence of modern world atheism and red-marked the orphanage by calling it Satan's Dungeon. Hazel would sneak extra food to the orphans and tell them stories about escaping from the darkness of prison.
Hazel next traveled to Georgetown University to take notes on the treatment of female African-American students by the Caucasian students. She noted that while Georgetown was reputed to be symbolically pluralistic, its race relations were still somewhat stereotypically strained. The Caucasian students didn't treat the female African-American students like they were attractive modern world citizens of an emerging pro-networking vanity-fair society aesthetic. In fact, Hazel even noticed some low-brow sexist jokes about college party date-rapes and logged this in her journal as evidence of modern world crudeness. She gave Georgetown the racism-moniker Black Tie.
Finally, Hazel traveled to Los Angeles and began working in a homeless shelter and started following some of the city's homeless people to their alleys and places of safety, just to see if they were secured from the modern urban threat of inhuman treatment. To her witchly shock, Hazel found that some of these homeless people in Los Angeles were being harassed and abused by cruel passerby who intended to mock their plight. Hazel logged this in her witch-journal as evidence of the savagery of so-called civilized people and red-marked L.A. as the City of Veils.
HAZEL:
"I'm convinced that the modern world is an arena of pure darkness and hellfire, signaling the eventual reign of the AntiChrist. I'm not surprised that America, the land of mainstream Christianity, is still nevertheless the domain of all manner of social blindness. I'm sure that the real cure to such hypocrisy is the adoption of Satanic rituals which should cleanse humanity from the ugly stigmata of lifestyle hypocrisy! In other words, the modern world is a big old cauldron of snakes, fumes, bad apples, bats, and toads. Therefore, I will continue to travel on Earth as a witchly journalist, taking stock of the real beauty of revolutionary fury."
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