No! You are not the “granddaughters of the witches they couldn’t burn”!
The other day, I was minding my own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror, when suddenly I was served an ad. Maybe the algorithm has figured out that I am mates with a bunch of the people who appeared in the, which was released earlier this year. It has certainly gleaned that I am a woman, I tend to read things about history, and I am interested in feminist theory more generally.This winds me up no end, and I want to explain why.
This is not to excuse the burning at the stake of heretics, who, I think, should not in fact have been killed for not being the right kind of Christian. Nor is it to say that being hanged is somehow a better way to die than being burned and that, therefore, this excuses what happened.
I am incredibly here to celebrate all the people who identify as witches now, and I think their spiritual and religious practices are very valid. However, whatever is happening with all this merch isn’t doing that. It’s trading in lies and profiting from pain. If we want to argue that our society is better now than it was in the early-modern period, then we need to start acting like it, and we need to stop repeating these falsehoods. Now.
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