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One sees it again and again in the popular stories and in the trial materials: the hexing witch.

She made my cow go dry. She made my ale go sour. She stole my field's fertility.

“Propaganda,” say Wiccans. “Scapegoating,” says secular scholarship. “Decadence,” says Murray: “a fertility cult become a sterility cult.”

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  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch says #
    Let me add, Francesca, that I entirely agree with you about *Aradia*: it's Leland's crazy-quilt masterwork, a little gem. 100+ yea
  • Francesca De Grandis
    Francesca De Grandis says #
    Yes. Yes, yes. Btw, I like that you call it a crazy quilt, bc I have always called it a potpourri of miscellany. Great minds think
  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch says #
    "Liberty" is certainly one of the by-names of the Goddess of Witches, and as for "Freedom"...well, that goes back to the same root
  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch says #
    "Liberty" is certainly one of the by-names of the Goddess of Witches, and as for "Freedom"...well, that goes back to the same root
  • Steven Posch
    Steven Posch says #
    "Liberty" is certainly one of the by-names of the Goddess of Witches, and as for "Freedom"...well, that goes back to the same root

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