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Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless

  • Written by Bridget Marshall, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com

“Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used to deride everything from impeachment inquiries and sexual assault investigations to allegations of corruption.

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