The Nation
SOCIETY GENDER AND SEXUALITY FEMINISM
The Problem With Dressing Up
as a Witch for Halloween
By Alice Markham-Canto
SOCIETY GENDER AND SEXUALITY FEMINISM
The Problem With Dressing Up
as a Witch for Halloween
By Alice Markham-Canto
"my 11-times-great-grandmother was hanged for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692, and I’ve been studying witch hunts for years. I focus mostly on Salem, but I’ve also studied the great witch hunts of Europe and I track witch hunts happening today.
Modern witch hunts are rampant: In the last 30 years, an estimated 30,000 people have been killed in witch hunts on every continent except Antarctica."
