Witch

The witch is feminine power that answers to itself. European folk tradition split her into good witches (cunning women, healers) and bad witches (malefactors, child-eaters) — a split Jung read as the culture’s anxiety about female authority. The dream-witch is nearly always an aspect of the dreamer, regardless of gender: a power the waking self has considered dangerous to own. A helpful dream-witch who teaches you a spell or offers a cup is the psyche returning a faculty you have refused; a threatening dream-witch who wants to eat or curse you is that same faculty angry at exile. The dream asks for negotiation, not banishment.