witches 
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SOURCE: Contingent
5/28/2023
When Witches Took Flight
by Chris Halsted
The modern association of witches and flight in fact emerged from a relatively obscure corner of medieval church writings that gained prominence in the context of contemporary political anxieties about women's political influence.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/31/2022
Witches are Having a Moment in 2022
by Anna K. Danziger Halperin
Women have long understood accusations of witchcraft as attacks on their efforts to exert power in their societies. This may explain why women today are embracing the symbol.
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SOURCE: History.com
10/19/2020
Why Do Witches Ride Brooms? The History Behind the Legend
The image of the broom-riding witch originated in symbols of religous heresy and rumors of occult rituals. But most of the records come from religious inquisitors and are not necessarily reliable.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/23/19
Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless
by Bridget Marshall
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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6/2/19
Witch Hunt! How Europe’s Witch Mania Came to the New World
by Elisa Carbone
Witch hunts in the New World began in Virginia, though Virginia’s alleged witches were imprisoned rather than executed.
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