Modern day portrayals of historic witch hunts do no one any favors.
Also, Salem is kind of becoming a theme park, which is pretty gross when you think about it.I’ve been consuming a lot of books and TV shows about witches lately, and one thing always sticks in my craw. These stories love to portray the victims of witch hunts in America and Europe as actual magical beings who were persecuted. This is insulting to the real world victims and a dangerous obfuscation of how witch hunts operate.
Pretending that accused witches were powerful beings feeds back into a century of Illuminati bullshit. Recasting the witch hunts as a superhero origin story, in a way, makes the people who committed the atrocities of the hunts look more reasonable. That is a bloody terrifying idea.. The idea that people killed in the witch hunts were magical healers or Earth Mother adherents is modern neo-pagan nonsense.
Yes, there were pagan beliefs all over Europe and America during the hunts, but that didn’t make the people persecuted part of an ancient witch tradition. At a time when medicine was leeches and knives, most people would try herbs and not-quite-orthodox prayers to help a loved one. It’s not like communities would sit around with a thumb up their butt while someone was pooping themselves to death until the cunning woman from the woods came in with magic bark tea. Medicine was a shared knowledge.
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