Robin Briggs > Quotes

“[T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.”
― Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

“To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with.”
― Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft