Hexposition: Witches on Screen
HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen explores the history, folklore and real-world beliefs hiding behind the witches of film and television. 🔮🎬 Where witchcraft meets the screen — and nothing is quite as simple as fact, fiction or folklore. 🖤
Episodes
7 episodes
7. Seeing Stars
⭐️ EPISODE SEVEN — SEEING STARS ⭐️Five points. Five lines. One symbol that can tell an audience witchcraft before a single spell has been cast.But has the pentagram always belonged to witches?In Episo...
6. There's No Place Like Home
🏚️ EPISODE SIX — THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME 🏚️Where does a witch live?Deep in the woods, perhaps, in a crooked cottage surrounded by herbs and strange objects. Maybe it has chicken legs. Maybe it’s made of gingerbread. Or p...
5. It's Not Easy Being Green
💚 EPISODE FIVE — IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN 💚Why are witches green?It seems completely natural to us now. Draw a witch, add a pointed hat, perhaps a broomstick — and there’s a very good chance you’ll reach for the green. But...
4. What's the Point?
Ask someone to draw a witch and there’s a good chance one thing will appear before almost anything else: the pointed hat.But why?In Episode Four of HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen, we’re putting one of the most recogn...
3. When Witches Make Their Mark
Episode Three — “When Witches Make Their Mark” 🔮What if the smallest mark on your body could be used as proof that you were a witch?In Episode Three of HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen, we delve into the disturbing his...
