History of Witches (a recurring persecution)

Max Dashu has spent over 50 years collecting and researching oral traditions, folklore, written records and artifacts to discover what’s there about women. She created The Suppressed Histories Archives to communicate her findings; they include a 16-volume series on The Secret History of The Witches. In today’s episode, she explains some of the long history of sexist witch persecutions and murders, who and what was behind them, and how such practices recur.

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women’s history from an international perspective. She built a collection of more than 50,000 images. Website: suppressedhistories.net.

The Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been covering the global women’s movement and related issues for community radio since 1986. The portal to archives is at wings.org and WINGS may be contacted at [email protected].


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