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Burn the Woman, Blame the Witch: A Patriarchal Playbook for Erasing Women: The True Story of How Misogyny Branded Women as Witches and Why It Still Matters
For over five centuries, society has had a brutal answer for women who disobeyed, dissented, or simply dared to exist outside the call her a witch, and let the fire do the rest.
In Burn the Woman, Blame the Witch, history and modernity collide in a chilling exposé of one of the oldest and most violent tools of patriarchal control. Drawing on forgotten trial records, eyewitness testimonies, legal decrees, and cultural myth, this book unearths the shocking truth behind the witch hunts that swept across Scotland, Europe, and the early American colonies—from the courtroom to the stake.
It wasn’t about magic. It was never about magic.
The so-called witches were midwives, herbalists, widows, outspoken daughters, rebellious wives, unmarried women, and anyone else who posed a threat to the established social order. In the hands of religious leaders and state institutions, the label “witch” became a death sentence—one rooted in fear, misogyny, and the need to silence women who refused to be controlled.
From the Witchcraft Act of 1563 to the Salem witch trials and beyond, the book maps a terrifyingly organized system of surveillance, betrayal, and execution—where whispered accusations were enough to destroy lives, and entire communities were taught to see women as threats to be purged. With every trial, a dangerous message echoed to survive, a woman must be silent.
But the story doesn’t end in ashes.
Burn the Woman, Blame the Witch draws stark parallels between historical persecution and today’s modern forms of online harassment, political smear campaigns, reproductive control, and institutional silencing. The faces have changed, the flames have dimmed, but the tactics remain eerily familiar. The same old spell—demonize, isolate, erase—still haunts our courts, our media, our streets.
Written with gripping narrative power, darkly poetic prose, and razor-sharp feminist critique, this book is a rallying cry for justice, a reckoning with the ghosts of our past, and a reminder that what was done to women in the name of God and order must never be forgotten—or repeated.
This is not just a history book.
It’s a mirror.
And it asks one urgent, terrifying What happens when the fire comes again?
In Burn the Woman, Blame the Witch, history and modernity collide in a chilling exposé of one of the oldest and most violent tools of patriarchal control. Drawing on forgotten trial records, eyewitness testimonies, legal decrees, and cultural myth, this book unearths the shocking truth behind the witch hunts that swept across Scotland, Europe, and the early American colonies—from the courtroom to the stake.
It wasn’t about magic. It was never about magic.
The so-called witches were midwives, herbalists, widows, outspoken daughters, rebellious wives, unmarried women, and anyone else who posed a threat to the established social order. In the hands of religious leaders and state institutions, the label “witch” became a death sentence—one rooted in fear, misogyny, and the need to silence women who refused to be controlled.
From the Witchcraft Act of 1563 to the Salem witch trials and beyond, the book maps a terrifyingly organized system of surveillance, betrayal, and execution—where whispered accusations were enough to destroy lives, and entire communities were taught to see women as threats to be purged. With every trial, a dangerous message echoed to survive, a woman must be silent.
But the story doesn’t end in ashes.
Burn the Woman, Blame the Witch draws stark parallels between historical persecution and today’s modern forms of online harassment, political smear campaigns, reproductive control, and institutional silencing. The faces have changed, the flames have dimmed, but the tactics remain eerily familiar. The same old spell—demonize, isolate, erase—still haunts our courts, our media, our streets.
Written with gripping narrative power, darkly poetic prose, and razor-sharp feminist critique, this book is a rallying cry for justice, a reckoning with the ghosts of our past, and a reminder that what was done to women in the name of God and order must never be forgotten—or repeated.
This is not just a history book.
It’s a mirror.
And it asks one urgent, terrifying What happens when the fire comes again?
107 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 12, 2025
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December 4, 2025
Love the topic. Very interesting to read about. This book only gives a quite short overlook. It was a little repetitive and i was missing the sources in the text.
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