The Witch

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton

A vast topic, on the world-wide figure of a person in a community who works harmful magic against its members, and is part of a tradition of magic, and rouses fear and hatred, and can be fought against.
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tidbits cross time

The Royalists' most reliable way to transmit documents was to sew them into books and then give them to women who managed to escape notice by the meanness of their condition.

Nomadic peoples, regardless of their theoretical beliefs on the practice of witchcraft, generally (but not universally) do not accuse people of being witches or specifically witching anyone.

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