Which+Witch?

If we study witches in our society, we have to ask which witch we are discussing. They are depicted as being frightening, funny, and perhaps even inspiring. Witches have taken on many roles in our entertainment. Perhaps some of the most sinister or from Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's //Macbeth//. media type="youtube" key="A1lHYvxieB8?fs=1" height="335" width="405"

It's interesting that Shakespeare could write witches into prominent roles in his plays in England, but that 100 years later people were being put to death in North America for supposedly being witches. When Arther Miller wrote the //The Crucible// centuries later about the Salem witch trials, he summed up the fear and hatred of witches when one of the primary characters, Mrs. Putnam, said, of witches, "It's death, y'know, it's death drivin' into them, forked and hoofed." Miller was trying to depict the feeling of Puritans and to take a jab at the infamous Communist witch hunts occuring in America in the 1950's. But in the 1960's, America saw a different sort of witch, a funny and beautiful one in the popular televisin series, //Bewitched//. media type="youtube" key="AnR5EfmP4fk?fs=1" height="331" width="427" In this episode, the star (the witch) is even linked to the village of Salem! By the 1960's, America was laughing at witchcraft and using it to inspire some of the arts. Here, a video in inspired by a Jon Gregory arrangement, media type="youtube" key="O56d6RxiavY?fs=1" height="385" width="480" .