Not to play special snowflake but I didn't think it was THAT common. Can you relate?

I can relate.... I really didn't know it was a thing

Woah me too!

So did I. I went out and bought spell books and tried to see if cat hypnotising music worked on humans.

I have never been into witch/occult stuff

I know a lot of people who went through this phase, but instead i went through a phase where I was terrified of demons, so when they pulled out their tarot cards and witchcraft I bolted, like literally ran away, don’t bring that shit near me

I think part of it is that it's a safe, relatively acceptable form of rebellion. You had some options too, you could be dark and edgy or bright and helpful and either way your parents would be disappointed, but not ground you or take away your cell phone disappointed. At least that was definitely part of it for some of the people at my school.
It's not all of it of course. Some of it is a lack of faith in the religion you were brought up in but not wanting to lose faith in something bigger than you. Part of it was the ability to feel powerful, which is not something teenager girls are given great opportunity to feel.
I've heard people say that some teens just want to be "misunderstood" but I think the opposite is actually true. I think a lot of teens feel misunderstood and they are seeking something that they can resonate with that a least some people do understand.
The myriad of Pagan traditions available allow people to have something that fulfills all of these things

It doesn't seem so odd. I mean, a lot of boys have a phase where they want to kill everything (usually as a superhero).
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I can't recall ever knowing a girl who went through the witchcraft phase though (I less wanted to be a witch and more wanted to be a werewolf/skin-walker, but that doesn't seem a very wide distinction)

Not really doing witchcraft, but I enjoy reading about it, wstching those "goth" style shows like Lenore and Ruby Gloom, using dark colors and "creepy" accesories.... Which still happens to this day

Does organ harvesting count as an occult phase?

Wednesday's at that very special age when a girl has only one thing on her mind. Boys? No, homicide.

I did!! It's middle school things, yknow oujia board and the tarots

I tried to summon Satan for infinite power with fake blood when I was 11...

It's to deal with the idea of life and death.
To have greater understanding of the world in which they live, by embracing the concept of mortality.