Narni The Lion, The Witch, And Greek Myths - 1801 Words

Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Greek Myths The use of witchcraft has been around for centuries. Witchcraft was paired with the worship of Nature and pagan gods and goddesses. Just like there is a wide variety of people who call themselves witches, there is a wide variety of the types of witchcraft. People have many definitions for the word witch. Realistically speaking, witches do not wear all black with pointy hats and ride on broomsticks. Witches typically use witchcraft as part of worship or as a tool of communication with Nature and/or gods and goddesses. C. S. Lewis, the author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe writes his story about: Four children in the magical world of Narnia filled with mythical creatures beyond a wardrobe door. In the book the children battle an evil witch who turned Narnia to an everlasting winter. With a lion named Aslan by the children?s sides, the children are able to defeat the witch and change Narnia back to what it once was. Lew is creates the White Witch, who relates to human and supernatural witches in mythology, to convey how witches have been perceives as evil and cunning, using their magic for selfish reasons, and were expected to act like so. Magic in ancient Greece was traditionally ?associated with foreign, distant places where the rules of civilization did not apply? (Segal 122). In fact, not only Greece, but ?Ancient Egypt, [Greece], and Rome treated magic as if it were science?