Be sure to check out part 1 here:
Witchcraft and Wizardry - A Biblical Perspective - Part 1
Witchcraft has always been a tool of Satan, to expose ego-driven people who would not willingly subjugate themselves to God, and through the ages, Satan has continuously re-packaged and re-branded witchcraft, to always keep it attractive to the self-serving of each generation, with its most recent incarnation being "Wicca", the modern trendy's socially acceptable version of witchcraft.
To fully understand why witchcraft has remained popular through the ages, you must first understand who it draws in, and why it draws them it...
Witchcraft has always been a religious form of "penis envy", practiced most by covetous women (practically the official religion of feminism) and effeminate men, who feel subjugated by powerful men in their society, and seek to overthrow their power through the use of magic... Not through education, invention or industrious hard work... Just sociopathic, self-serving, spiritual manipulation... And because these powerless people have always chosen to "blame the patriarchy" instead of their own lack of principled fortitude, they ultimately include God on their list of patriarchal suppressors, and thus willingly disobey his very clear biblical condemnation of their practices.
Now you would think that after all of this time, these people would notice that the wealthy and powerful countries (and individuals) of the world, are primarily Christian and Jewish (God takes care of His own), while the ones that are powerless and penniless, are the pagans and polytheists, who worship statues, dance around bonfires yelling incantations into the air, praying that somebody will pick them up out of the dirt and declare them a deity... And more times than not, they die in their ignorance and opposition to God.
So as anyone can see, "magic is masturbation"... It's self-indulgence and self-abuse, but it is not a real relationship with anything but one's own ego.
Nobody gains anything through witchcraft, and nobody is cursed by the spells of a witch... It only has power over people who are more simple-minded than the practitioner and are gullible enough to believe the spell is real... But the practitioner too is incredibly gullible; gullible enough to believe that he/she can bribe spirits into doing his/her bidding, by burning candles and putting out gifts a ghost can't even use (facepalm)... And Satan plays them like a fiddle.
And as the Bible warned, this is a wicked generation, arguably the most wicked, egocentric and self-serving generation ever... So of course, they are fully embracing witchcraft, and fully rejecting God.
Matthew 16:4
""An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah." And He left them and went away."
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Of course you did, this is one of our Church's teachings.
I think a large portion of its widespread popularity is how common it is in entertaining fiction. If someone wants to write a crazy fiction story far outside of normal conventions of possibility, they essentially have three options: Apply sci-fi, apply divine intervention, or apply some stylization of magic. I don't see this as wrong, or something that will go away, but I do think people should have the sense to recognize fiction as just that: fictional.
There are advanced sciences not commonly found in human understanding. To us, they might seem like magic, but it is instead working within the natural laws with greater mastery. Spells, rituals, incantations, and a litany of other practices do not fit within that field, either.
I think this can be a thing that this brings is instant gratification for a lot of people. Again going back to the idea that the person is in control and using other outside forces, opposed to having God be in control and being patient and humble. I could be wrong though because I've never tried to use witchcraft.