Tag: most notably: witchcraft/the persecution thereof

pipistrellus:

a good rule of thumb for ‘is this social phenomenon actually about jews’ is: 

• did its construction occur in medieval europe?
• does it involve even tangentially any of the following: magic, sorcery, Mysterious Deaths, poisoning, blood, sacrifices, controlling others though vague unknowable methods, strange rituals, somethingsomething about femininity being Evil, etc?