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I'm struggling to believe actual adults think they are actual spell casting, potion brewing, familiar having witches and not just people who own candles and have a cat. I'm SURELY missing something. Some people believe in actual literal magic, yes, and some people are just colorfully describing setting goals and visualizing an outcome.
To be fair, the standing position of the Catholic Church has always been that witches don't exist. It's the Protestants who did most of the witch accusing and burning.
So, I grew up with this belief that witches were our friends… that witches were these falsely accused woman… not falsely accused because witches don’t exist… we believed they did, and that they were killed because they were smart woman who spoke out and killed for that. Many of us identified as witches growing up… I did.
A story about three sisters joining the American suffrage movement to fight for women’s rights in a world where witches don’t exist but used to. The main book’s themes used throughout the story include patriarchal abuses of power, the strength in solidarity, and covert women’s resistance.
Concept The Witches by Hans Baldung (woodcut), 1508. The concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have persisted throughout recorded history. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions there is "difficulty of defining 'witches' and 'witchcraft' across cultures—terms that, quite apart from their connotations in popular ...
The Canon Episcopi, which was written circa 900 AD (though alleged to date from 314 AD), once more following the teachings of Saint Augustine, declared that witches did not exist and that anyone who believed in them was a heretic.
This site is designed as a back-up to the book by Robin Briggs, The Witches of Lorraine, ISBN 978-0-19-822582-2, published by Oxford University Press in 2007. "It makes available the collection of around 400 complete witchcraft trials from the Duchy of Lorraine on which that work is based, to complement the book and serve as a resource both for other scholars and for teaching purposes."
