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For too long, we’ve been told to be "good witches"—palatable, soft, glowing in white linen. But there is power in the dirt. There is wisdom in the raw, the carnal, and the loud.

They were the old women who lived on the edge of the village, the midwives who knew how to terminate a pregnancy or ease a difficult birth, the herb gatherers who spoke to toads, and the widows who talked to themselves while brewing ale. These women were vulgar not because they swore (though they likely did), but because they were . The Vulgar Witch

: A notorious Regency-era figure who used "vulgar" folk beliefs to scam people. She was famous for her "magical eggs" which she claimed predicted the end of the world. The Witch of Eye For too long, we’ve been told to be

Let us dispense with the velvet robes. The Vulgar Witch’s uniform is a stained bathrobe, muddy boots, or a t-shirt with a hole in the armpit. Her altar is a repurposed TV tray. Her wand is a stick the dog chewed. Her book of shadows is a composition notebook with coffee rings and a torn cover, filled with misspellings and crossed-out invocations. They were the old women who lived on

Literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the "grotesque body" is essential to understanding the Vulgar Witch. The classical body is closed, finished, and