A witchy side to anima

To give to eros either feeling or the anima puts too many events all upon one altar, claiming all for love. Not only is this biasedly Christian -- in the sense of limited to only one perspective of love -- but also authentic aspects of anima become judged only from the standpoint of love. Hatred, spite, suspicion, jealousy, rejection, enmity, suspicion, jealousy, rejection, enmity, deception, betrayal, cruelty, misanthropy, ridicule play their part in anima experiences. These emotions are appropriate to many of the cold-bloody, witchy creatures whom we find in legend and in poetry -- and in our dreams and lives -- even where such “negative” emotions are far from eros and the feeling function that would conform with the mediocre niceness of Christian humanism.

- Hillman, Anima, 35, 37

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She is a mischievous being who crosses our path in numerous transformations and disguises, playing all kinds of tricks on us, causing happy and unhappy delusions, depressions and ecstasies, outbursts of affect, etc. ... The nixie has not laid aside her roguery. The witch has not ceased to milk her vile potions of love and death; her magic poison has been refined into increased self-deception, unseen though nonetheless dangerous for that.

-- CG Jung, CW9, I, 53-4