Buffy Summers

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, while at its most core element is about a girl fighting vampires, featured a wide variety of supernatural elements throughout the course of the show. One of these elements is magic, and more specifically witchcraft. Witchcraft has appeared in several different forms, from evil to neutral to self-destructive to pure good tied into the feminist nature of the show.

Our first look at witchcraft is in the season one episode “The Witch”, in which Amy’s crazy mother hurts everyone in her path with her evil magic on her way to becoming a cheerleading superstar. Here witchcraft...