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“Accused women were routinely stripped naked and shaved.”
“Witches are in league with the devil, they said, beyond any doubt.”
“Very likely, the daughter would have to decide that, yes, her mother had been a witch, and she had deserved to die.”
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“Witches have no innate power.”
“Scotland, the Netherlands, France, and Switzerland made witchcraft a capital offense around 1550.”
“In fact, it influenced some of the most important literary writers about witches in the seventeenth century.”
“To control the land, you have to control the women—or, more precisely, you have to control their uteruses.”
“Once witch fever had gripped Europe tightly in the sixteenth century, the mechanisms that states developed for eliciting confessions from accused women became very precise, and very brutal.”
“Scot insists in his treatise that the making of contracts with the devil is a complete fiction.”
“______________________________ From Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women by Eleanor Johnson.”
“Because of their confederation with Satan, these women witches must be condemned to death, irrespective of the fact that they hold no intrinsic power themselves.”
“Which would entail the young girl acceding to a reality in which women sometimes deserved to be tortured to death.”
“The persecution of witches accelerated in lockstep with the increasing privatization of property in the sixteenth century.”
“If you look at areas where privatization wasn’t happening, you find almost no witch persecution.”
“England made witchcraft punishable by death slightly later, but by 1604, a woman could be executed for witchcraft in England even in the absence of hard evidence that she had caused harm to people or damage to property.”
“Lamia status was now something you could simply opt into, complete with its infanticidal violences.”
“Indeed, as Bodin states, one of the most common crimes of witches was to murder their own children, before baptism.”
“I imagine her physical pain at being flogged, and her humiliation at being flogged in public.”
“Hundreds of thousands of women were tried, tortured, and executed for witchcraft in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.”
“Her books include Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968–1980) ; Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England ; Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama ; and Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve .”
“Most importantly, it influenced William Shakespeare, who read the Discoverie before writing his famous witch play, Macbeth , in 1606.”