In much the same way as healer and wise woman, the term witch was used to describe the woman who’d completed her bleeding years – the years where she’d gathered her wisdom with each and every menstrual cycle. Having completed those years, she’d arrived in the seat of her power, and people from the community would then come to sit at her feet and seek her wisdom and counsel. The same applies to the word hag. It was once a reference to a women who refused to do what she was told, or bow to patriarchal ideas and systems. Hags were/are badasses.
