Allusion
Practical Magic
Practical Magic surfaces in one Taylor Swift song, through allusion.
Appears in 1 song
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
The Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street”
Surfaced via community readers as the opening of Practical Magic, where Maria Owens leaps from the gallows and levitates away, cursing the men who condemned her. The condemned witch who refuses to die and instead drifts free maps directly onto the song's gallows-and-levitation line.
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