The Witch Trials in Salem
First, witches are accused of every conceivable sexual crime against men. Quite simply, they are
,,accused" of female sexuality. Second, they are accused of being organized. Third, they are accused of
häving magical powers affecting health of harming, but also of healing. They were often charged
specifically with posessing medical and obstetrical skills.
First, consider the charge of sexual crimes. The medievaal Catholic Church elevated sexism to
a point of principle: The Malleus declares, ,,When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil."
The Church associated women with sex, and all pleasure in sex was condemned, because it
could only come from the devil. Witches were supposed to have gotten pleasure from copulation with
the devil and they in turn infected men. Lust in either man or wife, then, was blamed on the female.
On the ohter hand, witchs were accused of making men impotent
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