Case

 The case that I will be using is within the book, Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self by Helen Berger and Douglass Ezzy. Here, the two authors interviewed many young witches in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States, to find out what drove them to become a part of witchcraft and what this spiritual way of life does for them when navigating the real world.


 Nika is a young American witch who found herself becoming attracted to witchcraft with an initial interest in Greek goddesses. Her story comes with one of re-enchantment, reclamation, and empowerment. She chooses to use the word witch because of the negative connotations it is associated with. She uses symbols of goddesses in Greek mythology as a means of empowering herself and as an empowering symbol for women. She uses witchcraft mostly for self-development, especially for coping with being a victim of sexual assault when she was 14. Nika's story is very important to my theoretical frame, especially when it comes to re-enchanting oneself and self-development within witchcraft. 


Berger, Helen A., and Douglas Ezzy. Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self. Rutgers University Press, 2007. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hj9jq.


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