Do Not Cite the Deep Magic to Me, Witch

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About

Do Not Cite the Deep Magic to Me, Witch is a memorable quote from the 1950 fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by British writer C. S. Lewis and the 2005 film of the same name. Since 2016, a two-panel screen capture of the scene from the move has been circulated as an image macro.

Origin

On December 9th, 2005, fantasy movie The Chornicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe^[1] based on the children's book of the same name by C. S. Lewis^[2] premiered in the theaters. In one scene of the film, character Aslan, a lion, interrupts the White Witch by telling her not to cite the deep magic to him.

Spread

On December 1st, 2016, Instagram^[3] user narnia.folk posted a watermarked two-panel macro based on the scene. The post gained over 60 likes in two years.

On April 10th, 2018, Twitter^[4] user @kaludiasays paired the macro with a humorous caption in a tweet. The post gained over 50,100 retweets and 150,400 likes in nine months.

On April 11th, 2018, Redditor^[5] d--kfromaccounting posted the macro with a similar caption to /r/memes subreddit (shown below, top left), where it gained over 35,300 upvotes in six months. In the following days, variations of the meme also appeared in /r/Yogscast^[6], /r/Freefolk^[7], /r/dogecoin^[8] and other subreddits.

Through 2018 and 2019, the macro saw moderate use across a variety of subreddits, including /r/prequelmemes^[9], /r/pcmasterrace^[10] and /r/dankmemes^[11].