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Anonymous Mon Mar 4 14:18:38 2019 No.12702471 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any decent literary fiction about witches? Preferably set pre 19th century?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 14:21:14 2019 No.12702490 File: 871 KB, 300x169, AmbitiousSmoothIslandcanary-max-1mb.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ....or any predatory, female supernatural being

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe Mon Mar 4 14:39:57 2019 No.12702623 File: 71 KB, 405x584, 8ED11056-ACCB-46E7-8FE8-706D846FCCE5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Real witches were just healers and midwives, (shamans) unfairly murdered by superstitious Christians

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 14:40:42 2019 No.12702627 >>12702623 butterfly is actually a good example of why witch burning was completely justified

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 14:41:12 2019 No.12702629 >>12702623 hi varg

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe Mon Mar 4 14:45:27 2019 No.12702658 File: 64 KB, 990x655, 3A802159-BAA8-4B8B-AD2F-6EF45D3E6F23.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12702627 Stay in your hole, little spider.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 14:46:40 2019 No.12702671 The Witches of Eastwick is by far Updike's worst book but it's still above the usual fair when it comes to witches

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 15:27:27 2019 No.12702875
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Isn't there any good novels written about the Salem trials or anything like that?
Has there ever been a book that expands on the witches from Macbeth?

>>12702623
Also women with mental illness, spinsters, women with learning difficulties and promiscuous women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 15:29:12 2019 No.12702886 >>12702623 This is what they want you to believe.

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 15:35:20 2019 No.12702922

In Scottish coastal villages, which consistently endured periods of poor fishing, villagers would hound out dysfunctional women who did not get married and have children, and burnt them for luck. It usually worked. They were still doing this in the outer hebrides till the 1960's

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 16:44:37 2019 No.12703313 >>12702471 Houellebecq thread?

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