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During this period, women accused of witchcraft were often healers, widows or poor women. These women were a threat to this patriarchal society because they had knowledge or independence. These women have been massacred and oppressed.
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This book is a manual written and used by the Church to identify and eliminate witches -
This is a series of trials in the Massachusetts, during which many people were arrested and 19 executed.
It starts in february 1692 and finished in may 1693 -
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In Hansel and Gretel the witch is depicted as an ugly, scary and sneaky old woman. -
This book deals with witches in a new way, they are described as women oppressed by the Church and the State. Michelet proposes a vision of witches as free and rebellious in the face of patriarchy
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In the 1960-70’s there were many feminist movements
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Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell is a feminist collective created in 1968 that uses the image of witches as a symbol of resistance and female power. They denounced the patriarchal and capitalist oppressions for example by public events like "casting spells" on Wall Street
Their slogan: "We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn" -
The witch is now a modern figure of freedom, power and spirituality through social networks and media.
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Social media has popularized the culture "witchy". This aesthetic concept has symbols crystals, the moon, tarots, the use of herbs. In short everything that relates to the practice of witchcraft and the development of spirituality -
This slogan is used in modern protests. Modern witches now represent the struggle against intersectional oppression and personal freedom