Why people hated and killed witches

I've been disturbed for several decades now by totally erroneous and glamorized misinformation and romanticizing of women who were killed as witches. Now, I am not talking about women falsely accused of being witches, who obviously were innocent and persecuted. I'm talking about women who did function as witches and presented themselves as such, and there were many.

Who were they? They were the poor man and woman's Borgia, providing access to poison, spells that supposedly manipulated people in secret and, most important for you to know, they were the abortionists. That is why the average man AND woman hated witches. They were the "go to person" for baby killing. This is the opposite of the "innocent herbalist who is gracing the poor with her curing and healing 'lore' and 'wisdom'" that power drunk (and often literally) New Agers like to paint them as being. These were not the gentle sweet women who "were there because there were no doctors" who dispensed herbal cough remedies to the poor little children. They were the go-to women for poison, "spells," and abortions.

That is why there was witch hysteria that resulted in many innocent women being persecuted and killed. It is because a genuine class of self proclaimed witches ruined it for everyone else. The idea that witches provided medical care that was not available is totally false. How do we know that? Look at Biblical times, specifically the time of Jesus, which was well over a thousand years before the times of the witch persecutions. St. Luke was a physician. Also, when Jesus healed the woman with the hemorrhage, it is documented that she had been to "many" doctors. So there were real doctors available to the average person, including the poor, even in the time of Jesus. No one would have had to recourse to so called witches and they would have been horrified at the thought.

Further, poor people had their own medical knowledge. This is one of the big contractions in logic in the "witch apologist" lobby. They pretend that the poor dumb people knew nothing about medicine, and had to turn to those wonderful wise crones for their herbal cures. Um, anyone who knows anything about sociology and history knows that each household was self sufficient in both human AND animal medicine. Um, duh, remember that people who lived off the land, as everyone did then, obviously also handled their own medical needs, except for those that were so severe that a doctor was required. And that was usually so that tools could be accessed (remember that even in this country, barbers practiced medicine!) But people who had to care for livestock and again, virtually everyone did until the past century, did their own VET work too! There were no vets, dummies. So the average poor household was full of their own herbal and procedural knowledge to tend for their animals and care for the people in all routine illnesses. So it is a total lie that "white witches" provided any sort of benevolent "lore" or "medical care." They were the go-to source for dark purposes that derived from needing to do something immoral (and hence local knowledge would not suffice), such as poisoning or casting spells, but most importantly, abortions. And the vast majority of men AND women wanted as many babies as possible. Abortion was abhorrent then, much more than now. So again, abortion was sought out for dark reasons, not because some poor oppressed lady was losing her figure or starving due to that bad husband knocking her up.

This is why I hate all the media who has presented witches in a sympathetic and totally false light, and the revisionist New Age propaganda that has even seeped into schools curriculum. People freaked out and killed accused witches because they hated and feared what real self proclaimed witches did do. It is far from a "women's right" issue because most women hated and feared aborting, spell casting and poisoning witches as much as anyone. This is why often false accusations started with women accusing witches of harming their children. Women knew what real "witches" were really up to. That is why I was totally horrified (and remain so) in the 1990's when a well known Jungian analyst proudly told me that she is a "reincarnated witch who was persecuted and killed." She was PROUD of being a witch (not falsely accused, but of being one, or so she thought, since she's a wicked delusional idiot who believes in manipulative reincarnation, which does NOT exist in any form). But my point is that this freak was proud of being a "witch" from medieval times because she believes her own shit (as I've described above) instead of the truth of self proclaimed witches being abortion, poison and spell purveyors. This is why many women were the first to accuse these horrors, since good decent women knew exactly what these witches were actually up to. Witches were Godless aborting harlots of Babylon who poisoned and manipulated their way into local power, and then they squealed when it caught up with them, and they aborted one too many babies. And as a result, many innocent women were swept away in the persecutions because of the shit that "genuine" witches spread around through their dark deeds. Far from "fighting evil" witches made money and power off of other people's misery and sin, leading them further down the road of poisons, spell casting and abortions.