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WITCH: Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

On a brisk autumn day in New York City, 1968, roughly 13 women spent the morning of October 31st dressing in black cloaks and dresses. They stuck feathers, leaves, and furs in their long hair.  One woman grabbed her enormous hat, roughly in the shape of a costume witch hat, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 7 months5 months ago
Henry Fuseli, The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo | Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons
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“Wicked Practises and Sorcerye”: Cunning Folk, Witch Trials, and the Tragedy of Joan Flower and Her Daughters

In 1618, the Earl of Rutland and his wife accused three women of bewitching their family. They believed that bewitchment was the cause of death of their first son, and the long-term illness of their second. The women in question were former servants of their household at Belvoir Castle near Read more…

By Averill Earls, 7 months7 months ago
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Both Man and Witch: Uncovering the Invisible History of Male Witches

Since at least the 1970s, academic histories of witches and witchcraft have enjoyed a rare level of visibility in popular culture. Feminist, literary, and historical scholarship about witches has shaped popular culture to such a degree that the discipline has become more about unlearning everything we thought we knew about Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 7 months7 months ago
The Witch Trial, William Powell Frith, 1848
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Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch

In 1973, two professors active in the women’s health movement wrote a pamphlet for women to read in the consciousness-raising reading groups. The pamphlet, inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, looked to history to explain how women had been marginalized in their own healthcare. Women used to be an important part Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 7 months7 months ago
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