re: #124 buzzsawmonkey

You’re making kind of a leap there, aren’t you? To believe that people were witches is one thing; to say that the people believed to be witches were “strong women being punished for their sexuality” is something entirely different.

Yes, there were people who were believed to be witches (and wizards) who were hunted down and killed for their alleged practice of witchcraft. What has that to do with “sexuality?”

I think it has to do with not following the predefined puritan gender rolls. Strong women were considered socially abnormal and thus were suspect.