Horny History: The European Witchhunt

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“It is astonishing that there should still be found to-day people who do not believe that there are witches. For my part I suspect that the truth is that such people really believe in their hearts, but will not admit it.”

Henri Boguet 1602

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Approximately 50,000 people were executed for being witches from 1400 to 1750. Those people, were mainly women.

If that number shocks you, if it makes you think of the Middle Ages as barbaric, keep in mind that today over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in just this past year, for the crime of existing. Humanity today is no less barbaric.

Witches were feared to the point of execution because of their association with the Devil. On a greater scale, witches could send demons to cause mass illness and death, sink ships, and cause other catastrophes. In communities, witches might target a specific person to hurt their health, family or farm. Things we would call misfortunes were feared to be caused by witchcraft.

These witches were not pagans. They likely didn’t even practice magic. They were mainly poor women, especially widows, unmarried women and elderly women. To stay healthy, a woman’s uterus needed her to have sex and become pregnant. Normal women got married and had babies. If she didn’t want to do so, or couldn’t, it was very suspicious.

The angry woman, the witch, she might have an “evil eye” that harmed the person being looked at. A woman with irregular periods would have the fluid build up in her body and since it wasn’t coming out her vagina, it came out her eyes, injuring those she looked at. This is also why women were more dangerous after menopause.

Why don’t you smile more? Why don’t your eyes look happy?

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There were many reasons beyond what I already mentioned as to why a person could be accused of witchcraft. To be “sexually immoral”, was a trait that could cause others to feel disdain for you, and cause you to be more likely to be accused.

The Devil was sexually immoral too. “The devil had a two-pronged penis with which…