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31 sie 2023 · Still, most people accused of witchcraft were women. John Demos analyzed the Salem witch trials and further discovered that many of the men accused of witchcraft happened to be husbands or fathers of alleged witches.
30 paź 2023 · Presented as women persecuted for being women, in the line of work by philosopher Silvia Federici and Mona Chollet, witches have long permeated the public discourse.
18 paź 2021 · According to human rights organizations, Poland under the Law and Justice government has become a country where women’s rights have been increasingly restricted.
Witches were generally defined as people who made a pact with the Devil in exchange for magical power to commit evil acts. They were believed to join with the Devil, meet with him at night-time sabbaths, pledge homage, engage in lurid sex, kill children and maim pregnant women.
26 paź 2023 · Witches in literature and pop-culture have been predominantly depicted as female-identifying. Why is this? Most of the witches in the Wiccan religion are women. Historically, during the witch trials in Europe and in the American colonies, most of those accused of witchcraft were also women.
23 paź 2019 · Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.
12 maj 2020 · Despite the general acknowledgement that most persons accused of being witches were women, there has been considerable debate on the connection between women and witches in the context of the witch hunts in early modern Europe.
