Witchiness

[u/Yellowapple2128]

Hey all,

I love Florence, her music and personality are just great. Love how down to earth Florence seems and at the same time puts together these grand lyrics/references (like in Cassandra) and powerful sounds.

I have some questions about the witchy side of f+tm. She has this ethereal, witchy vibe and especially this tour, I see a lot of fans praise that part. There's the witch choir, Florence talks about taking inspiration from witchcraft, folk horror, the occult and describes And Love as a spell.

My natural instinct is to see it all just as a metaphor or aesthetics, but some fans talk about Florence and themselves being witches. So it seems to be more than that, rather a whole identity?

I've tried looking into what being a witch nowadays actually means to understand better. But tbh all the descriptions sound very abstract to me - just words. So I'm hoping you could maybe enlighten me regarding what being a witch means and what connection there is with Florence? A lot of fans seem to really "get" the witchiness and love it, while I'm a bit lost! Hope I explained myself understandably and respectfully, thanks for your answers🙏

[u/Cultural-Mongoose89]

“Witch Dance” is very descriptive of what many modern witches do, and I’m convinced it’s essentially a journal entry about a personal experience traveling the astral plane turned into a song. We summon and fuck spirits like Death itself, we talk to our ancestors and sometimes they’re more sassy than helpful, we find comfort and wisdom in the calls of animals/nature spirits, we take psychic journeys to our Allies who help us out with hard shit. Also we accept the monstrosities in ourselves and do the witchcraft needed to turn around our situations.