Male Witches Executed 400 Years Ago

Submitted by Brad on Thu, 2002-10-31 01:03

An anonymous user points to a finding by two Canadian academics. It turns out that the witch-hunts that occured around the 16th century were not exclusively female-oriented, as modern media suggests.

"It makes it much harder to maintain the standard, stereotypical narrative of unrelieved misogyny, of blind ignorance, superstition and woman-hating,"

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