Abstract
During the 21st century, in the western world, in an allegedly rational society, some women fully identified with the figure of the witch. Be it quietly, as one of their most private secret, or loudly and outright, several factors give us an explanation on the need to identify with such a figure, namely, the fact that it is an answer to perceived misogyny.Indeed, witches' history, in the collective imagination, is first and foremost associated with a misogynistic hunt by religious men against powerful women they must eliminate. Even if what actually happened isn't really comparable to this idea, it doesn't stop those individuals, those modern witches, from acting as heiress to women who were persecuted by a patriarchal society.The figure of the witch doesn't only give them an identity; it also allows those women to legitimate the practices of witchcraft to a certain extent, by reaching toward an alternative religiosity.