American Horror Story and the teenage witch

The show American Horror Story does a great job creating modern day monster stories. The third season of the series is solely focused on witches. In this season the main characters are all female witches, some are old and act as teachers for the young witches in a sort of boarding school for witches. In some ways its similar to the Harry Potter idea in that in the normal human world witches are not accepted so they must be protected and sent off to this witch school where they hone their skills and grow together. In class and in the readings it was mostly discussed how everyday people discovered, hunted, and attacked women who were labeled as witches. The show takes a different approach towards witches and focuses mostly on the conflicts and drama between witches in the house. There is all kinds of drama that goes down in the house between all of the teen witches. Just like with regular human teens it usually involves boys and sexual experiences. This is also a way that this series connects to historical aspects of witches because throughout history it is sad that witches rebel to the norm with their very vocal descriptions of their sexual experiences and there risque activities. One of the girls in the house embodies this concept perfectly in that she is very sexual and is proud of it and likes that it sets her apart from the other girls. In the season there is some reference to the "witch hunters" and how they have been traced back to the days of the Salem trials but that part of the show was not the main focus. The show embodies how modern witches would have to act towards the outside world and how they would intermingle because even though we have culturally advanced a long way since the Salem days we as a whole would still not react well with the emergence of witches into society.