This Old Dragon: 40 Years of the Dragon #114 Witch

This October marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Dragon #114. All year long, I have been waxing nostalgic about my gaming experiences from 1986 and how they set the tone for the next 40 years of my gaming life. I have also spoken at great length about the witches who have shared those gaming experiences with me over the last four decades. So I would be remiss if I didn't mark this particular anniversary as something important.But the question is, after spending so much time with the witch and this particular issue of Dragon magazine, what do I have left to say?Turns out, more than I thought.The Witch on the PageI have already talked at length about how my understanding of witches and witchcraft grew out of my love of stories about witches, as well as historical documents, and modern occult and New Age interpretations of the witch. So seeing her in the pages of Dragon was exactly the sort of thing I had been looking for at the exact time I was looking for her.Now, I had…