I heartily disagree. You are thinking of the imaginary witches of fairy tale fame. There are spiritual witches who worship Satan and practice black “magic.” The one in the story was the latter. They are practitioners of the demonic.
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Santa Muerte practitioners don’t worship Satan. The religious cult caters to the oppressed and the outcasts in society. It’s a folk religion that’s an offshoot of the Catholic Church, and devotees feel the Church doesn’t represent them. Many of these ppl are poor and do whatever they have to do to survive, even if it’s illegal and immoral. It’s hard to be “good” when you feel like society has failed you. Add in a lack of formal education and it’s easy to see why a certain demographic would embrace this “religion.”