Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

by Donna Huber

I wasn't aware that witches were such a hot trend these days but as the opening of Basic Witches declares, "Witches are everywhere these days. Fashion trends feature flowy black clothes and dark lipstick, magazines and websites run special witch-themed issues, and hipster covens are forming in Brooklyn." Since I wasn't aware of the trend, I wondered did they mean real witches or more in a pop culture sense.