In other words, they were not real men but first-class witches.
The two collections of essays present the findings of research into midwives, folk healers, matchmakers, witches and women's religious communities.
At the same time the commission acknowledged that it is difficult to detect witches, as their crimes cannot be witnessed by the naked eye.
Just as political and religious power are comparable, so too are the actions of covens of witches and exclusive groups of plotters and putschists.
The mid-twentieth-century critics are offended precisely because they don't want witches to sound trivial.
His witches gain a certain strength from having their coarseness so blatant.
They identified witches, detected thieves and aided lovers.
At each harvest, the total number of fruits and the number of fruits infected with witches' broom per plot were recorded.
