Posted on October 30, 2020
by candacerobbbooks
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I’ve been exploring what it means to label someone a “witch”, not in the sense of name-calling, but when claiming that someone practices “witchcraft”. That depends on when and where it occurs, and who is doing the labeling. So what was going on with the idea of a witch in Magda’s time?
Category: featured, Medieval Culture, Owen Archer and Lucie Wilton, Uncategorized, Writing Women's LivesTags: A Discovery of Witches, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition, Circe, Deborah Harkness, Gemma Hollman, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Madeline Miller, Magda Digby, Malleaus maleficorum, Monica Furlong, Royal Witches, the Riverwoman, Wise Child, witch