Pretty much everyone knows about witch trials. The European ones, Salem, etc. They even make movies for kids with the subject as a central plot point. (ParaNorman was pretty good.) It's emphasized over and over the distant, frightened past of it, the terrified, ignorant townspeople. But that's so long ago. I mean, people believed in fairies too, ( Read more... )

It occurred to me, while I was cleaning the bathtub, just how much a lot of the popular rhetoric around the medieval European witch-craze is really, really offensive, and that apparently I need to write about it on the internet instead of cleaning the sink ( Read more... )