Monster Essays - Witches
Witches
American history has few subjects as interesting as witchcraft, because
it confronts us with many Ideas about women. It confronts us with fears about
women, the place of women in society, and with women themselves. Also, it
confronts us with violence against women and how the problems of society were
often blamed on women. Even though some men were executed as during periods of
witch hunting, witches were generally thought of as women and most who died in
the name of witchcraft were women. In the United States, witchcraft took place
among too educated of people to dismiss....
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