Meanwhile wizards: "BEHOLD MY STAFF OF POWER", "I'm pondering the SPHERES", "KNEEL BEFORE MY MIGHTY ROD".

Jokes aside, that is a culture thing - if my rather tattered memory serves, historically, a lot of magic was pact magic (asking someone else for power in exchange). Necromancy was a little different (before its conflation with "nigromancy" by the church in medieval times) and in its earlier incarnation generally involved a "descent" into the underworld via a gate (of which there were many) and so was almost "adventure magic". These ancient holy sites were venerated rather than shunned and, again memory is patchy here, generally held an oracle (i.e. a witch).

So, fun fact of the day, if you go caving in the right place you're technically a necromancer.

Or, maybe because it's just cool. Might be a super controversial thing to say, but it's pretty much proven that boys and girls tend to gravitate towards certain elements.

So boys go through a phase where they are crazy about dinosaurs. Girls it's witchcraft.

This isn't a universal constant, however, as neither of my sisters have been into witchcraft, and I know one woman who's really into dinosaurs.

I'd understand if I get skewered for this but people who don't leave the witchcraft stuff behind when they grow up are on par with disney adults and hardcore weebs. I used to think I could gather chi to perform powerful attacks but if I still thought that, people would rightfully make fun of me.

This opinion is gender neutral but I'm always afraid to express it because it might come across as misogyny.

The last statement is not necessarily true- witchcraft has until very recently been understood to derive power from a concord with the devil.

Isn't it assumed that witches get their power from the devil?

Unfortunately false if I remember my mythology correctly. Aren't witches granted their power as a result of their deal with Satan?

Even into adulthood, they love bullshit like horoscopes and blood types (the latter more prominent in Japan).

>"female empowerment that don't derive their power from their relationship to a man"

>try to summon the devil or a ghost to get power from.