βIt is estimated that at least 1, 000 were executed inΒ England, and the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish were even fiercer in their purges. It is hard to arrive at a figure for the whole of the Continent and the British Isles,Β but the most responsible estimate would seem to beΒ 9 million. It may well, some authorities contend, haveΒ been more. Nine million seems almost moderate when one realizes that The Blessed Reichhelm of Schongan atΒ the end of the 13th century computed the number ofΒ the Devil-driven to be 1,758,064,176. A conservative,Β Jean Weir, physician to the Duke of Cleves, estimatedΒ the number to be only 7,409,127. The ratio of women toΒ men executed has been variously estimated at 20 to 1Β and 100 to 1. Witchcraft was a womanβs crime.
Β Β Men were, not surprisingly, most often the bewitched. Subject to womenβs evil designs, they were terrifiedΒ victims. Those men who were convicted of witchcraftΒ were often family of convicted women witches, orΒ were in positions of civil power, or had political ambitionsΒ which conflicted with those of the Church, aΒ monarch, or a local dignitary. Men were protected fromΒ becoming witches not only by virtue of superior intellectΒ and faith, but because Jesus Christ, phallic divinity,Β died βto preserve the male sex from so great a crime:Β since He was willing to be born and to die for us, thereforeΒ He has granted to men this privilege. β ChristΒ died literally for men and left women to fend with theΒ Devil themselves.β (pg 129-130) Woman Hating,Β Andrea DworkinΒ
βThe witches used drugs like belladonna and aconite, organic amphetamines, and hallucinogenics. They also pioneered the development of analgesics. They performed abortions, provided all medical help for births, were consulted in cases of impotence which they treated with herbs and hypnotism, and were the first practitioners of euthanasia. Since the Church enforced the curse of Eve by refusing to permit any alleviation of the pain of childbirth, it was left to the witches to lessen pain and mortality as best they could. It was especially as midwives that these learned women offended the Church, for, as Sprenger and Kramer wrote, βNo one does more harm to the Catholic Faith than mid wives. β The Catholic objection to abortion centered specifically on the biblical curse which made childbearing a painful punishment βit did not have to do with the βright to lifeβ of the unborn fetus. It was also said that midwives were able to remove labor pains from the woman and transfer those pains to her husbandβclearly in violation of divine injunction and intention both.β (pg 139-140)Β Woman Hating, Andrea DworkinΒ
βThe magic of the witches was anΒ imposing catalogue of medical skills concerning reproductiveΒ and psychological processes, a sophisticatedΒ knowledge of telepathy, auto- and hetero-suggestion,Β hypnotism, and mood-controlling drugs. Women knewΒ the medicinal nature of herbs and developed formulaeΒ for using them. The women who were faithful to theΒ pagan cults developed the science of organic medicine,Β using vegetation, before there was any notion of theΒ profession of medicine. Paracelsus, the most famousΒ physician of the Middle Ages, claimed that everythingΒ he knew he had learned from βthe good women.β (pg 140)Β Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
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Bolded sections are by me. Honestly I donβt think I need to explain much. We lost some of the most important women in the world, who were the pioneers of medicine for aΒ βcurse of eveβ. Β Basically saying if you relieve another womanβs pain weβre going to call you a witch and kill youΒ βin the name of godβ because having a child is punishment upon women and relieving their pain is illegal because this book written by men told me so.
Also check out the part where men canβt be witches because jesus and hisΒ βphallic divinityβ βpreserve the male sexβ.Β
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