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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
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3 comments:
Of course, five men were executed for witchcraft, Giles Cory died under torture, and many more men were accused. To reduce this event to an "anti-woman" simplification is very misleading. Great bibliography of gender and witchcraft accusations here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi175/timetable/seminar7/
That last one makes me think of an old Canadian expression to describe an attractive girl/woman... "Beef to the heels."
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Donna's comment sent me looking for a list by gender and I found this in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft
I gave up counting as it is sometimes difficult to tell by names what the gender is, and sometimes there was a group, but I was surprised that a number of men were included.
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