Her history was written by men, working when African voodoo was more electrifying than outmoded English witchcraft. All wrote after the Civil War, when a slave was understood to be black.

5. A German bestseller changed the way people felt about witchcraft In 1486, a German clergyman called Heinrich Kramer wrote a book entitled Maleus Mallificarum. The author derided witchcraft ...

When examined through a feminist lens, the history of witchcraft reveals how patriarchal structures have weaponised the fear of witchcraft to control and oppress women. Many feminist scholars ...