day 2

last few years i have gotten a Halloween ritual that i love and feels right.

the biggest part of it is watching The VVitch. and this year, it hit me on why i love this movie so much.

i have always wanted to be a witch. it wasn’t just a Halloween costume, it was a goal, to be witch, to be like the Wicked Witch of the West, she was the end goal, green and monkeys if need be. that’s who i wanted to be when i grew up.

but witches weren’t real, only in the books and movies and all pure fantasy.

and then when i was 8, i found out about the Salem Witch Trials.

i don’t remember the book 100%. it was from my town’s library, it was from the children’s section, and problem written in the 70s or 80s, so the info wasn’t the best but it was there.

what i remember is the realization of witches are real and this happen here, where i live.

it would be another 20 years, or so, before i got bored and started reading all the books that same library had on the trials. i found them on the shelf and just started with the first on and went down the shelf.

and The VVitch is all that. it was this Halloween, in bed with Izzy, that i thought, little Amer would love this movie.