"Why were middle-aged and old women, with a few young maidens, singled out as the special victims of that terrible mania of superstition which for fifteen hundred years lighted lurid flames of burning humanity on innumerable hilltops and inspired a malignity and ingenuity of torture unmatched in the whole realm of cruelty?"
Once well-known woman writer Anna Garlin Spencer offers some possible answers to this question that scholars of the European witch craze are still asking today. Here's her 1913 article about the role of women in society after their mothering years are over. Read more: After Motherhood: Anna Garlin Spencer
Once well-known woman writer Anna Garlin Spencer offers some possible answers to this question that scholars of the European witch craze are still asking today. Here's her 1913 article about the role of women in society after their mothering years are over. Read more: After Motherhood: Anna Garlin Spencer
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