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Born on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennahlyons\/status\/1178944224563040256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Big Witch Energy (BWE) is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2018\/6\/27\/17506898\/big-dick-energy-explained\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Dick Energy\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> transcendental counterpart, a term gleefully bestowed upon women who exude a spell-binding quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying to define BWE is tricky, however, as the women it seeks to bracket thrive on being ever so slightly unknowable and aloof. In simple terms, BWE is an other-worldly quality that goes hand-in-hand with a potent spirit of sisterhood. It denotes a calm sense of self-assuredness, but also the palpable feeling that the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">woman in question could cast a spell on you and\/or damn you for eternity. If BWE started with Joan of Arc, it has culminated in Billie Eilish. These women are as weird and unnerving as they are fearless and good-hearted. They also <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be able to communicate with owls.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80420,"id":80420,"title":"44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n","filename":"44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","filesize":94487,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 14:27:50","modified":"2019-10-04 14:27:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":84,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","medium-width":1080,"medium-height":708,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","medium_large-width":1080,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","large-width":1080,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":708,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/44914653_2187408628142142_7281350681346144602_n.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1080,"wpvr_mobile-height":708}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Melissa Joan Hart. Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Hartbreak Films. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before I rattle off some of my favourite BWE figures, it might be helpful to give a controlled example of the science behind determining who has BWE and who does not. Consider the three actresses who have each played TV\u2019s favourite witch, Sabrina Spellman. First, we have Melissa Joan Hart (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabrina The Teenage Witch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in the 1990s TV show based off of the Archie comic. As a performance, Melissa\u2019s take on Sabrina was memorable , but as a human, Melissa, I am sad to report, only has a few delicate strands of BWE in her. Maybe she was overshadowed by her Sabrina legacy or maybe it was that she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dancingwiththestars.fandom.com\/wiki\/Melissa_Joan_Hart\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">competed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dancing With The Stars,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> either way her BWE has wavered. Then there is Ashley Tisdale (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage Witch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who has zero BWE because she still wears <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o_c7AWTN5Qg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hair-ribbons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aged 34. And finally, Kiernan Shipka (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), who, despite bastardising Sabrina\u2019s legacy with a misjudged Netflix remake, was once spotted by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BSrnzRjhKNO\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TMZ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201ctalking to herself whilst doing cartwheels\u201d in Santa Monica, and is therefore overflowing with\u00a0 BWE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science established, here\u2019s my official guide to Big Witch Energy\u2014who has it and why:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Helena Bonham Carter<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80411,"id":80411,"title":"65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n","filename":"65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","filesize":92760,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 13:50:18","modified":"2019-10-04 13:50:18","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":726,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":86,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","medium-width":1080,"medium-height":726,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","medium_large-width":1080,"medium_large-height":726,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","large-width":1080,"large-height":726,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":726,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":726,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65167489_2400599336851751_625522696040324472_n.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1080,"wpvr_mobile-height":726}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Helena Bonham Carter and her BWE mother Elena Propper de Callej\u00f3n. Image via Instagram @helenabonhamcarterdaily."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Has Helena Bonahm Carter ever actually played a character that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wasn\u2019t<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a witch? Her onscreen performances categorically exude BWE. HBC could play someone as cookie-cutter as Florence Nightingale in a biopic and I would leave the cinema thinking \u201cGod, that\u2019s weird that I never knew Florence Nightingale was a witch.\u201d It is a combination of her hair, the fact that she looks about four-foot-two, and her propensity for corsets, that all lead me to believe Helena Bonham Carter is a natural cinematic witch. She was also born into British aristocracy which helps her case. (NB: Helena\u2019s ex-marriage to resident Hollywood kook Tim Burton equals five bonus BWE points. That they lived in two separate houses conjoined by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturenews\/8784899\/Helena-Bonham-Carter-and-Tim-Burton-to-link-adjacent-houses-together.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weird tunnels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equals five-hundred bonus BWE points.)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Lana Del Rey<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80427,"id":80427,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (24)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","filesize":492175,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-24","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 15:08:04","modified":"2019-10-04 15:08:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":77,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":900,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":900,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-24.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":900}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Lana Del Rey. Courtesy of @lanadelrey and @burntlana."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lana Del Rey once asked her twitter followers to hex Trump. Questioned about the alleged curse by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/lana-del-rey-used-hex-on-donald-trump-2113859\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NME<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Del Rey shrugged, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I did it. Why not? Look, I do a lot of shit.\u201d The hex itself is witchy, but the subsequent nonchalance is even more so. A core quality of BWE is that its possessors are crucially casual regarding their powers. Yeah, I put a hex on the president. Do you have any more stupid questions?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Virginia Woolf<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80426,"id":80426,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (23)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","filesize":749668,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-23","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 15:03:40","modified":"2019-10-04 15:03:40","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":77,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":900,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":900,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-23.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":900}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Virginia Woolf. Courtesy of Wikipedia. Nicole Kidman as Woolf in The Hours, 2003. Paramount Pictures. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia Woolf epitomised BWE. Wearing your straggly hair in a low bun? BWE. Complicated marriage? I take thee, BWE. Writing about a generational sentiment of disillusionment? I suppose that\u2019s BWE, not that we can really be certain of anything. Feeling a constant sense of fatigue and disappointment with the men who surround you? Eurgh, BWE. Pioneering stream of consciousness as a narrative form? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I gaze outside the window and absent mindedly murmur, to no one in particular, \u201cBWE\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>Zo\u00eb Kravitz and Lisa Bonet<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80428,"id":80428,"title":"950x350-white-solid-color-background (25)","filename":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","filesize":592275,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"950x350-white-solid-color-background-25-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 15:13:09","modified":"2019-10-04 15:13:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":77,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":900,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":900,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/950x350-white-solid-color-background-25.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":900}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. 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Either way, they are both the same person, and there is only one thing behind this: witchery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Kris Jenner <\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80432,"id":80432,"title":"white box","filename":"white-box.jpg","filesize":852236,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/white-box\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"white-box","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 15:23:15","modified":"2019-10-04 15:23:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":77,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":900,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":900,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":900,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":900,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/white-box.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":900}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Kris Jenner. Images via Instagram @krisjenner."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could tell me that Kris Jenner was actually immortal and had been alive for over 400 years and I wouldn\u2019t even so much as blink in surprise. She strikes me as being not entirely from this world and is, therefore, suspect. You might think it&#8217;s a result of her unending plastic surgery habit, but no, this is just her pure, unadulterated, Big Witch Energy. She is also single-handedly the greatest matriarch of the 21st century which screams sorcery. They may as well rebrand <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping Up With The Kardashians<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping Up With The Coven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Sadly, I don\u2019t actually think KJ has passed down any of this potent BWE to her offspring, but I get a sense that it might have skipped a generation and gone straight to North West. TBC.)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Baroness Hale<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80417,"id":80417,"title":"lady-hale","filename":"lady-hale.jpg","filesize":63071,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/lady-hale\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"lady-hale","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80409,"date":"2019-10-04 14:17:01","modified":"2019-10-04 14:17:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1080,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1080,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","1536x1536-width":1440,"1536x1536-height":1080,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1080,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-hale.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1080}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Baroness Hale. Image via YouTube."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the UK supreme court judge, Baroness Hale, triumphantly declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s decision to prorogue parliament unlawful, all anyone could talk about was her brooch: a silvery, spindly, spider, glittering sternly by her left shoulder. What did the brooch mean, laymen wondered. Was it a coded jibe at Johnson? A subtle dig at his web of lies? NO! It was quite evidently a pledge of allegiance to her coven of BWE sisters. Confirmed by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no less, the arachnid accessory \u201csuggested female power \u2014 call it \u201cBig Witch Energy.\u201d Hale is, in my opinion, our current and greatest figurehead for BWE, in that she embodies all of its best qualities. Seemingly unassuming, but ultimately omnipotent. A witch-hunt is brewing, only this time it will be led by the witches. (Other political witches include US democratic representative Alexandria Ocasia Cortes, who was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/progressivesecularhumanist\/2019\/02\/conservative-christians-claim-ocasio-cortez-is-a-witch-leading-attack-against-trump\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently accused<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by a conservative Christian group as governing \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a coven of witches that cast spells on President Trump 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Most likely to be fake news, but I sincerely hope it\u2019s not.)<\/span><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s the season of Big Witch Energy It\u2019s the season of Big Witch Energy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s the season of Big Witch Energy It\u2019s the season of Big Witch Energy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/big-witch-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-04T15:26:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-04T15:35:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Madeleine Fletcher\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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