Deborah Harkness Quotes

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a wonderful compilation of primary sources about witchcraft.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.

For a long time, the paranormal was a legitimate area of explanation for quite a lot of people.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

I'm a witch, I'm up all night, this is no joke.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

My interest in the comic goes back a long time, because I grew up reading comics, mostly Marvel Comics, and I always loved 'Doctor Strange' uniquely. It was the presence of the fantastical, the presence of the supernatural that was in it. The idea of magic.

There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.

My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she was a witch and that my grandmother was also a witch. It was late at night, and she was really sleepy, but I took it very seriously because I always wanted to go to Hogwarts.

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.

The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.

I can't explain witchcraft.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.