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“I don’t really look like Ned. I usually have a beard and don’t carry pies around.” - Lee Pace
I look like Ned: I don’t have a beard and I always carry pies around.
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e-d-chesborough, you and me probably
Not probably, definitely razmatazmaz
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e-d-chesborough YOU AND ME, YOU AND ME, MATCHY MATCHY!
razmatazmaz This is the actually a depiction of the first month of our friendship.
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What was a witch, historically, other than a woman who had some knowledge about the local plantlife and put that knowledge to use?
How is a witch any different from male apothecaries?
Why don’t we learn in school where our knowledge of the earth comes from?
I’m so glad we don’t get burned alive for this stuff anymore. I’d’ve been a goner.
ETA: I’m glad we don’t get burned alive for this where I live. Women are still ostracised, killed and maimed because of charges of ‘witchcraft.’
Mm, I feel in these conversations it’s worth pointing out that accusations of the supernatural were and are generally just pretenses for disenfranchisement, ethnic cleansing, land grabs, etc? The women of Gambaga, for example, are largely widows, and accusations of witchcraft are a way of dispossessing them of their homes and property after the deaths of their husbands. Likewise, the Spanish Inquisition’s energies were largely expended on Jewish and Muslim residents of Spain (indeed, many inquisitors outright rejected supernatural accusations, but modern people prefer to frame it otherwise, perhaps because anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attitudes are still alive and well in Europe and elsewhere.) The witch trials of Salem were fueled by family feuds and land disputes. Joan of Arc was burned as an act of political theater. Yes, a belief in witches (sincere or conveniently feigned) is required for any of this to gain traction, but it is always more complex than that. It strikes me as very disingenuous for relatively privileged people to insinuate that they, too, are just like people who have suffered under accusations of witchcraft because they make their own herbal teas, or whatever. It allows us to pretend these things happen simply because of savagery and ignorance, and ignore the fact that they just another method to persecute the marginalized and politically inconvenient people in our societies, whose plant knowledge is really quite irrelevant most of the time.
I agree with the idea that these accusations are usually a cover for disenfranchisment, and usually target older and marginalised women.
However, there is also a long history of these accusations targeting knowledgeable women, especially midwives and female medical practitioners. The pushback against women providing healthcare, one of the things studied in medical anthropology (my field!), ties in strongly with this topic.
“No one does more harm to the Catholic Faith than midwives.” - Malleus Maleficarum
In the country where I live, and where my ancestors come from (The former Kingdom of Denmark/Norway, which is what I am referring to when I say “I’d’ve been a goner”), women accused of witchcraft were burned alive or beheaded with state sanction by the Protestant church of Denmark, from 1540 to 1693.
Christian IV of Denmark, was obsessed with witchcraft, and charges and trials primarily took place in rural communities in Jutland. There is a reference to this in the Scandinavian summer solstice celebration, called ‘sankthansaften,‘ where to this day an effigy of a witch is burned on a bonfire.
The last witch burned here with State sanction – 74-year old Anne Palles – was one of many rural women who had a husband predecease her. After that, people resorted to lynch mobs: Dorte Jensdatter was 50, unmarried, and burned alive by her neighbours. Anna Klemens – lynched at the age of 82 – was a beggar. These were definitely marginalised or widowed women, not herbalists.
The Thisted Witch trial, however, was mostly young women, like 27-year-old Maren Christensdatter Spillemand. The Rugård witch trials found young Anne Sørensdatter guilty.
And here I’m arriving at my point: women were also accused of witchcraft here in the sense that they practiced herbal medicine.
“Af jordemødre nævnes nogle i det 17. aarhundrede. 1613 eller snarere 1615 brændtes to hexe i Bergen, hvoraf den ene var jordemoder.” - Danmarks Jormødre
(From the book Denmark’s Midwives, on Midwives being burned for witchcraft in Bergen). See also: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers.
Now, being myself an atheist, anti-authoritarian, feminist, non-straight woman who is considering going to medical school to be an OB/GYN (a quintuple threat back then), I feel some connection to these histories, a connection I definitely don’t see as ‘disingenuous’; it’s not because I’m gardening and brewing herbal teas.
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I feel this on a spiritual level and I’m getting out my sewing machine rn.