just found out that in 2006, in saudi arabia, a woman named fawza falih was accused by a man of practicing witchcraft and making him impotent. she was repeatedly beaten for an entire month to force her to confess, and was then denied access to lawyers or any type of defence. she wasnt even allowed to be present during the hearings and the trial. she ended up being sentenced to death by beheading. in the 21st century. im speechless.
Little was heard of her after her sentencing, though there were a couple of updates. The king received appeals from human rights organizations, but he did not pardon her. Later, it was reported that she had died in prison in 2010 from choking on some food.
just found out that in 2006, in saudi arabia, a woman named fawza falih was accused by a man of practicing witchcraft and making him impotent. she was repeatedly beaten for an entire month to force her to confess, and was then denied access to lawyers or any type of defence. she wasnt even allowed to be present during the hearings and the trial. she ended up being sentenced to death by beheading. in the 21st century. im speechless.
Little was heard of her after her sentencing, though there were a couple of updates. The king received appeals from human rights organizations, but he did not pardon her. Later, it was reported that she had died in prison in 2010 from choking on some food.
The same goes for any apeal to history. Like it should be obvious that i dont trust mens opinions.
The malleus maleficarium is incredibly important to highlighting that christian witch hunts were a persecution of women in particular. While Kramer briefly states that it’s possible for men to be witches, “Maleficarum” is the feminine plural word for witches. The book also has literally an entire chapter for the case of women being more susceptible to witchcraft. The primary argument being that they were just so full of lust.
Another fact about Kramer and the Maleficarum is that it was written right after he was actually expelled from Innsbruck for “illegal activities” and an “obsession with the sexual habits of Helena Sheuberin.” Essentially he used prolonged torture and sexual interrogation of women to get off. Look at how much of interrogations required careful examination of women’s bodies. Kramer even said that witches held charms in their vaginas for the bewitchment of judges so he could sexually assault women. It was so bad that eventually the Innsbruck court declared a mistrial and tried to run him out of town. And I mean, this is Catholicism we’re talking about. It’s ALL about torture being the way to holiness.
This mistrial deeply affected Kramer who channeled his rage into the writing of his book. It didn’t become truly popular until the protestants used it post-schism in an effort to develop identity. It was a best-seller, and considered THE handbook for witch hunting. Before this book, witchcraft was not even considered a genuine heresy and most accusations were ignored, but this book became the most read and used text second only to The Bible itself.
TLDR; The Maleficarum doesn’t prove men can be witches. It doesnt give any information on witchcraft itself. However, it does prove that witch hunting was entirely about holy men’s access to women’s bodies for sex and torture as sex.
All of that. The witch trials where not about hunting actual witches. And lets not forget that the trails paved the way for modern medicine and all the horror it entails. Just an extention of the torture and subjugation of women.
The same goes for any apeal to history. Like it should be obvious that i dont trust mens opinions.
The malleus maleficarium is incredibly important to highlighting that christian witch hunts were a persecution of women in particular. While Kramer briefly states that it’s possible for men to be witches, “Maleficarum” is the feminine plural word for witches. The book also has literally an entire chapter for the case of women being more susceptible to witchcraft. The primary argument being that they were just so full of lust.
Another fact about Kramer and the Maleficarum is that it was written right after he was actually expelled from Innsbruck for “illegal activities” and an “obsession with the sexual habits of Helena Sheuberin.” Essentially he used prolonged torture and sexual interrogation of women to get off. Look at how much of interrogations required careful examination of women’s bodies. Kramer even said that witches held charms in their vaginas for the bewitchment of judges so he could sexually assault women. It was so bad that eventually the Innsbruck court declared a mistrial and tried to run him out of town. And I mean, this is Catholicism we’re talking about. It’s ALL about torture being the way to holiness.
This mistrial deeply affected Kramer who channeled his rage into the writing of his book. It didn’t become truly popular until the protestants used it post-schism in an effort to develop identity. It was a best-seller, and considered THE handbook for witch hunting. Before this book, witchcraft was not even considered a genuine heresy and most accusations were ignored, but this book became the most read and used text second only to The Bible itself.
TLDR; The Maleficarum doesn’t prove men can be witches. It doesnt give any information on witchcraft itself. However, it does prove that witch hunting was entirely about holy men’s access to women’s bodies for sex and torture as sex.
All of that. The witch trials where not about hunting actual witches. And lets not forget that the trails paved the way for modern medicine and all the horror it entails. Just an extention of the torture and subjugation of women.
No fuck off. Witches are women and witchcraft is for women. We made this shit and we are keeping it. Die mad about it.
Absolutely not. Only women can practice witchcraft, so only women can be witches. Witchcraft is a female practice.
Women did not get tortured to death in their thousands by men because they were believed to be witches to now have men claiming they can be witches too.
Both men and women have been killed and persecuted for being witches. Don’t gatekeep words you know nothing about.
A tiny minority of men who were caught in the crossfire of femicide does not negate that witches were women
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