2006-10-10 19:07:53 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Churches. If they were pictured as beautiful then they were afraid more young women would want to become them. Also this way it looked like fi you wanted to consort with satan you would pay dearly. Not that i but the consrting part. Who says a witch has to consort anything other then her heart? Again the churches to justify burning them.
2006-10-10 19:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by mother_of_bonehead 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
It is tradition. A "witch" was usually someone in a village who was misunderstood and a loner. Rumors would grow up about them and the stories would make them outcasts. People who were generally weird and outcast would live outside of town. It's easy to make a villain out of someone who is different, isn't it?
Over time, folk tales would embody these weird outcasts and make them into villains used to frighten children or explain away the ills of a village. An ugly villain is easy to hate. Beauty and ugliness were important themes in popular folk tales of every culture.
2006-10-11 02:18:45 · answer #2 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess they can be pretty or ugly. The good ones are pretty most of the time....as in Glenda the Good Witches case in The Wizard of Oz....or like the charmed ones on the tv series Charmed...which I loved by the way!!! The ugly witch was the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz.....and there are plenty of ugly people in real life who we refer to as witches!!! Or we change the w to a B!!! We all know what that is!!! =)
2006-10-11 02:12:57 · answer #3 · answered by MiLuv 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I agree with those above that witches do not necessarily have to be ugly. If you remember the witch hunts, they were common housewives, or rather widows, who were being persecuted. If I had to guess, the idea surfaced from a novel depicting them in an ugly manner.
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2006-10-11 02:17:00 · answer #4 · answered by savior_of_hyrule@sbcglobal.net 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think the cartoonist in the newspaper? they always shows "ugly" one cause they been portray as "evil". plus the animated movie, to scare the children thinking they are teaching them lesson not to be associated or influence by anything bad such as witchcraft or witch power.
but they interest me cause they probably knows a lot of craft to help other as well. im reading a book that a very pretty witch is so powerful, she can heal people quick if there's a cut or bruise, that means they are not bad at all.she can also concoct potion for some relief to various ailment. meaning they are caring people and willing to help. so if they are bad, why would they do help sickly one?
2006-10-11 02:26:21 · answer #5 · answered by salome 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is a bit long, but bear with me.
Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween Witch.
Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, a toothless mouth beneath her deformed nose. Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting from a bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs. Most think this abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature. I disagree, I believe this to be how Witches were really seen.
Consider that most Witches were women, were abducted in the night, and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under the secrecy of darkness to be presented by light of day as a confessed Witch. Few if any saw a frightened normal looking woman being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture, to be questioned until she confessed to anything suggested to her and to give names or what ever would stop the questions.
Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed Witch. As the Witch was paraded through town en route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned or disposed of in various other forms of Christian love all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body, the jeering crowds viewed the results of hours of torture. The face bruised and broken by countless blows bore a hue of sickly green. The once warm and loving smile gone replaced by a grimace of broken teeth and torn gums that leers beneath a battered disfigured nose. The dishevelled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses. Broken twisted hands clutched the wagon for support, fractured fingers with nails torn away locked like groping claws to steady her broken body. All semblance of humanity gone this was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a Witch.
I revere this Halloween Crone and hold her sacred above all. I honour her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of man. Each year I shed tears of respect when the mundane exhibit their symbol of Christian love.
Author: ~Unknown
2006-10-11 02:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because to those who think magic and witchcraft is evil, it's easier to have a witch that is physically ugly. It justifies the hatred they feel for the character.
2006-10-11 02:11:17 · answer #7 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Some other witch, no woman can accept that the other is beautiful. What say?
2006-10-11 02:12:19 · answer #8 · answered by vajra 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about in the Wizard of Oz, there is the wicked witch of the west & the beautiful Glenda. I suppose Glenda wouldn't like to be considered a witch.
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2006-10-13 02:59:42 · answer #9 · answered by ThomasR 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ugly ducklings do turn into BEAUTIFUL SWANS one day. and the most beautiful one doesnt remain that way for the rest of one's life.
afterall, Beauty lies Skin deep.
2006-10-11 02:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by marissa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋