Category: Poonen, Sandeep

(Copyright) by Sandeep Poonen (Bangalore, India) One of my children recently came home reciting this rhyme learned while at school. “Witches, ghosts, and goblins, walking down the street Knock on every doorway, ‘Trick or treat!’” I was shocked by how my child, in all innocence, could sing so casually and trivially about such scary things. I also noticed that this song grouped ghosts and goblins which are not real, with witches. I realized that this song sought to group witches into that same silly, not-real category. Some people think of witches as women with pointed-hats and a broom, or witch doctors in a jungle. But […]