The Witching Body: Ontology and Physicality of the Witch

Abstract These considerations illuminate an ontology of the witch by first disclosing how “witch,” as a linguistic gesture, carries world meaning, ethics, and culture being originating in body. Witches witchcraft speak to communal situatedness acknowledging power we have over ourselves, others, that singular lack control often experience everyday life. In dialogue with Ada Agada, Emmanuel Lévinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I offer interpretation body schema through what call “witching-body,” drawing on historical anthropological examples related personhood, thus demonstrating embodiment philosophy are already alive ritual magical acts. explain other’s contradiction everydayness transcendence reflexivity self-sensing-self aspects our own body, such organs emotions, may be occult or other us. The ungraspable ambiguity this necessary others; there is both banality infinite plurality. We yearn know because embodied existential expressions “witch” find constitutes person.