9 Pop Culture Icons With Big Witch Energy I'd Like to Celebrate This Halloween

The narrator of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the final novel published by Shirley Jackson — herself an absolute BWE queen — nails books to trees and buries silver to shield herself and her sister from the cruelties of the world. The world gets in anyway, but one has to wonder how much worse it would've been without Merricat's interventions. The film adaptation stars Taissa Farmiga as Merricat, which is oh so appropriate considering how many times she's played a witch on American Horror Story.