6/26/2023 0 Comments Cassie nightingale![]() But the most enchanting thing about Cassie is that she not only believes in the goodness of people but she has a way of bringing it out in them if it can be brought out. So its not hard to picture her as a witch, whether she calls herself that or not (and the title of the movies and show doesn't hurt either). She also has an uncanny knowledge of things, an ability to mysteriously appear, and owns a black cat named Isis. It's an endless open ended question whether Cassie really is a witch, but its heavily implied that she is: she owns a store named Bell, Book, and Candle* that sells exactly the sorts of things any self-respecting witchy store would sell, from crystals to tinctures made by Cassie, from sage to occult(ish) jewelry when people come to her for magical spells she never disappoints although she never exactly responds as you'd expect either and of course she owns a supposedly haunted house and talks to animals and plants. The movies are based around the life of Cassie Nightingale, a woman with some serious magic although she's never explicitly identified as either a pagan or a witch (despite the title of the movies). They also offer us a new vision of television witches that retains the mystery and functional magic but loses the supernatural. ![]() But they are also I think a type of modern myth, subtly interwoven with magic in ways that don't so much ask us to suspend our disbelief as get us to forget we ever didn't believe that this kind of every day magic was possible. They won't be to everyone's taste, they are after all Hallmark Channel fair, saccharine sweet at times and melodramatic. I've been known to marathon the movies with my children. If you like it it's a rather addictive thing to watch. For those unfamiliar, The Good Witch started as a 2008 made-for-tv movie, followed by a sequel, then additional movies each consecutive year through 2014, and starting in 2015 a television series that is now going into its third season. There is one big exception to that however in the form of The Good Witch. As you might imagine if you've read my blog for any length of time, I'm not generally a Hallmark Channel sort of person.
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