this book i’m reading compares 16th-17th century widespread belief in witchcraft w people in the 21st century believing in astrology and i feel so personally attacked
the signs as elements of 16th-17th century witch trials:
- aries: judges and jury
- taurus: witch who kills rich ppl to avenge the peasant class
- gemini: witch who killed your cattle bc you looked at her wrong
- cancer: midwife trying her best accused by ungrateful clients
- leo: local healer accused by the city physician for stealing business
- virgo: elderly crone who’s been accused and acquitted like 20 times
- libra: witch sentenced to a week in gaol for conversing w spirits
- scorpio: agents of satan making pacts w local women
- sagittarius: “conjurer” who insists what they’re doing isn’t witchcraft
- capricorn: mass hysteria and superstition
- aquarius: witch supplying all the others w clay figurines
- pisces: witch who only uses magic to make sour beer good again
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