I'm a Witch and I Don't Care About Halloween

There, I said it. I know most (all?) witches love Halloween because duh, it's a celebration of all things witchy and scary, but I feel no connection to it at all. I grew up in Italy, and Halloween wasn't really a thing there back then. The first and only time I went trick-or-treating I was 12, and it was a very stressful experience because some of my classmates started to spray goo on the cars parked in the street and I thought it was a terrible crime. I don't even remember what I was dressed as, but it was probably a witch (duh). I did witness Halloween become more popular over the years, but it was only the commercial, superficial part of it, the piles of overpriced candy stacked briefly in shop windows before being substituted by Christmas decorations. We had Day of the Dead, of course, and again, some witches work with spirits and ancestors and like this holiday, but I don't feel connected to it either. To me it always just felt performative. It just meant trudging through…

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