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It’s the season of the witch
Updated On: 13 September, 2026 09:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
This week, Practical Magic 2, about a family of witches, releases. It’s a sign that the witch lifestyle has many millenials under its grasp, including Sunday mid-day editor Aastha Atray Banan. But what can we do, it’s so fun!

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play witch sisters in Practical Magic. Pic/Instagram; (right) Witchy women know their power and they exercise it every day — they speak things into existence, and they know their worth. Pic/iStock
What prompts a woman to become a witch? It could be heartbreak, it could be as a hobby, and it could be like me, just to tap into something bigger than us. I have always been a woo- woo kind of person. I was the one who was talking about manifestation for the last 12-15 years, even before it became a buzz word. I have started reading tarot. And, yes, I have felt my own powers become bigger ever since I started knowing, and believing, that I am a witch.
Maybe, it all started in the 1990s and 2000s, when we watched movies like Practical Magic (1998), The Craft (1996), or the show Charmed (1998). In Practical Magic, the Owens sisters, played by Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, manifest a perfect man, as they also get rid of a really horrible one, all thanks to magic. In The Craft, four school girls have their wildest dreams come true, when they discover their abilities. In Charmed, a trio of sisters inherits the craft, and start helping people with their unique powers.


