Discuss the representation of women in witchcraft literature.?

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If any one can help me with this I would appreciate it as I have 3,000 word essay to write.


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well firstoff the first thing u should know is that Wiccans ARE NOT devil worshippers. Its a mis-conception thats lasted centurys because people were afraid of the wiccans and thought they were a cult plus the churches probably were a part of it too spreading slander about their celebrations.Which are mostly just dancing around bonfires like on Harvest Night (In Fall-when crops are harvested to thank the gods for the food) though some wiccans do do magick you can also be a non-magick wiccan.So to sum it up they're like cool Hippies.They pretty much celebrate nature and have various gods.Though u should research what role woman played in the reliogion.

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possibly because in history, women kept in the house and did chores and cooking. cooking food for the guys were a mystery and how did they do it? had they wonder... women with the old wives tale on doing chores and people would think them as weird. that is my assumption only so do what ever you want. think about it anyways. like different cures and procedures for ointments that are just weird and sometimes never work.

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Misconception, misuse of the word "witch" and "witchcraft" and the false belief that witches are generally women have led to our present understanding that witchcraft is generally evil. Perhaps fairytale stories have something to do with this as it was mostly in those stories where witches are defined as evil (evil witch, wicked witch or bad witch) and that whenever the word witch is mentioned, it is always a woman. The church during the Inquisition Period did not originally mention "witchcraft" but "heresy" and anyone who practices heresy is called a heretic. But somewhere along the way the Anglo-Saxon word wicca (a contraction of "witega", meaning a prophet or sorcerer) became the source of the term "witch", which in turn became associated with "heresy".

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You could perhaps start with the witch Medea from Greek mythology, since the ancient Greek image of the witch influenced early Christian writers on the topic. Their ideas were passed through to the medieval age.

Apuleius' Golden Ass (A-- = donkey) might also be useful. It is an ancient novel telling the story of a man's encounter with witches. It was written in the C2nd A.D. so is contemporary with early Christianity. Saint Augustine even mentions this book in his discussion of witchcraft in the "City of God."

Mmmm, yahoo prevents you writing the word for donkey which beings with a!!!

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