Do Not Cite The Deep Magic To Me Witch

2016image macroclassic

Do Not Cite The Deep Magic To Me Witch is a two-panel image macro pulled from the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It pairs the White Witch with Aslan cutting her off, and took off in April 2018 as a dismissive reaction template on Twitter and Reddit.

Overview

"Do Not Cite The Deep Magic To Me Witch" is a two-panel image macro built from a scene in the 2005 fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe1. The top panel shows the White Witch mid-sentence, and the bottom panel shows the lion Aslan cutting her off, drawn from the book's confrontation over ancient Narnian law2.

The format works as a setup and dismissal. The Witch panel carries a caption about someone bringing up an outdated or basic fact, and the Aslan panel carries a rewritten version of the "do not cite the deep magic" line as the annoyed comeback6. That two-beat rhythm is what made the template flexible enough to work in fandom, gaming, and crypto communities alike.

How It Spread

On April 10, 2018, Twitter user @kaludiasays paired the two-panel image with a humorous caption4. The tweet gained more than 50,100 retweets and 150,400 likes within nine months, giving the macro its first big push into wider meme circles.

A day later, on April 11, 2018, Redditor d--kfromaccounting reposted the macro to /r/memes with a similar setup about being shown a meme on Facebook5, and it climbed to over 35,300 upvotes in six months. Variations quickly appeared in /r/Yogscast, /r/Freefolk, and /r/dogecoin6, each community swapping in captions tuned to their own inside jokes, like the dogecoin post about "1Ð=1Ð."

Through 2018 and 2019, the template saw moderate rotation in /r/prequelmemes7, /r/pcmasterrace, and /r/dankmemes, where posters kept using Aslan's line to shut down everything from old Star Wars canon debates to reminders about pre-shortage GPU prices6.

How to Use This Meme

Making one typically means grabbing the two-panel Aslan and White Witch screen capture and adding a top caption about someone bringing up an outdated or obvious fact, then letting the bottom panel carry a rewritten version of the "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch" line as the exasperated comeback6.

Frequently Asked Questions