The True Face of Witchcraft

While 16th- and 17th-century English pamphleteers portrayed those accused of witchcraft as impoverished and elderly, court records suggest that it was just as likely to be powerful women who stood trial.

'The Cat Sathan’ from the first surviving witchcraft pamphlet, 1566

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