In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

by Mona Chollet

There is no “joining” WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch.

The Malleus Malleficarum confirms that witches have the power to make men’s genitals disappear and that they keep whole collections of them in chests or in birds’ nests, where they go on desperately wiggling (although no such collection has ever been found).

“Philosophy alone has at length cured men of this abominable delusion, and has taught judges that they should not burn the insane.”33

“When for ‘witches’ we read ‘women,’ we gain fuller comprehension of the cruelties inflicted by the church upon this portion of humanity.”42 Gage inspired the character of Glinda, the good witch in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was written by her son-in-law, L.

Frank Baum. When he adapted the novel for cinema in 1939, Victor Fleming created the first “good witch” in popular culture.43

“As witchcraft is a practice, it has no need of organized religious worship, although it can easily be combined with one,” explains Mæl, a French witch.

capitalism is always engaged in selling back to us in product form all that it has first destroyed.

Those who choose not to are often likened to heartless creatures, obscurely evil and malevolent toward the children of others

Modern medicine, in particular, was built on this model, and the witch-hunts enabled the official doctors of the period to eliminate competition from female healers—despite their being broadly more competent than the doctors.