A Contemporary Witch in Raven of the DC Universe

Raven is a superhero in the DC Comic Universe. She was also a member of the Sentinels of Magic, which were a group of magical beings who fought to save the world. She is the daughter of a demon, but her mother was human.  Raven has magical, psychic and telekinetic powers but always has to keep her emotions in check. If she doesn't, she loses control and converts into a demonic version of herself. Raven was born to a woman who was raped by the demon, which draws similarities to Palmer's quote from a Basque witch about it being unpleasant to have intercourse with the devil. Raven and her mother never boosted about being related to the demon, unlike the 'witches' from 1200 - 1450 who loved talking about it.  I think though, Raven might be like a repressed woman, like the witches from those ages. She can never talk about her feelings, is very modest, and just wants to be normal. Sometimes she snaps, (that's when bad stuff happens), and maybe that's what happened to the women who were saying they slept with the devil all those years ago. They were sick of being repressed by higher powers, and so they went and boosted about a terrible thing, (in the minds of the oppressors) to the priest's faces. 

I think a role of a witch today is to give people empowerment, especially woman. Raven saves the world all the time. Maybe the witch is a way for people to let off steam, telling about all these great and unbelievable things the witches can do and how even though they are powerful, they can still be good. I think the women from long ago were just trying to let go and be different and tell stories about all these crazy things. I think that's what Palmer was trying to get at and it made even more sense when we talked about it in class. They were normal people, then other people started to fear them and developed witch hunts. Granted, there are still some people who don't like witches today in the world (like the guy who thinks Beyoncé is a demon), but most people want to be like Hermione from Harry Potter or like a superhero like Raven. I like to think the witch is supposed to be a story of how interesting it is to be different.