AVAST YE WITCHES

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AVAST YE WITCHES!

• By
• Mawd Holly

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NOT Witches

• In regards to the confusion about discrepancies
  betwixt normal women and witches (BRONSON)normal
  women
• Were mature
• Managed households
• Faithful, obeyed the man
• Non-emotional working machines
• Everyone thought they deserved it

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Ye Middle Grounds

• Socioeconomic environment made women more loose
  prostitution over poverty
• Id rather be sexy then poor
• Celibacy has no scriptural backing according to
  Protestant reformers, thus convents disbanded
• MARRY YOUR NUNS!

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Pre-Christian Witches

• Viewed as mystics
• Could heal and help ? Tribal Medicine
• Generally blamed for misfortune and anything bad
  that happened since they were associated with
  supernatural
• Thus out of ignorance and superstition they were
  caricatured and put down

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Christianity Defiant Witches

• Held mockery convents named Sabbats
• Flying broomsticks (association with house
  cleaning over dramatized)
• Eating infants (sometimes freshly berthed)
• Potions (misinterpretation of medicines)
• Orgies (either Hetero or Homosexual though
  generally lesbianism based ? abomination to form
  given to them by God)

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General Attributes

• Married or Widowed
• Pretty friggin ugly and old or crippled
• In addition to folk medicine, acted as midwives
• Crotchety, irritable, caustic, conversationally
  aggressive

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Partial Death Toll

• Germany 1561-1679
• 3229 Crispy Witches
• Swiss Confederation 1470-1700
• 5417 Crispy, Speared, Impaled, Beaten or Bashed,
  Witches
• ITS OKAY! THEY HAD LEGAL BASIS!

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About that Legal Basis
Burn Baby Burn! DISCO INFERNO! Burn Baby Burn!
Burn that Mutha Down!

• Witchcraft was used as a scapegoat and political
  device for emphasizing the active spirit of the
  Catholic Counter-Reformation
• Specifically the Inquisition
• The trial and murder of witches increased public
  approval towards the generally oppressive
  Inquisitors

EEEEK!!!
FIYA IN THE DISCO! FIYA IN THE TACO BELL!!!
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Witch Makeover
Before
After
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And now for thy QUEST CALIBRE QUIESTIONS OF
EPICNESS

• Take into account the socioeconomic standards of
  women at the time. Is it possible that this purge
  of women might have eliminated not only female
  reformists but deterred further progressive
  reform and thought?

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2!

• Not only was this genocide spurred by religious
  fear and counter-measure but by government
  concern of safety for its citizens. At least
  thats what they want you to think
• What other possible political benefits could
  arise to local leaders through supporting this
  purge? Make them look good maybe?

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3!
RIGHTEOUS BEATDOWN FOR THE WIN MAN!

• Is it possible that the trials and genocide
  actually had some moral justification? Were there
  really evil willed women running amuck or is it
  all just over dramatization?

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That one good ole extra source

• Witchcraft." Microsoft Encarta Reference
  Library. CD-ROM.2004 ed.
• Catholic Counter Reformation." Microsoft Encarta
  Reference Library. CD-ROM.2004 ed.
• On the note of religious inquisition wanna see
  what it looks like in FORTY THOUSAND YEARS?