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.