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Witchcraft Female Sexuality

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Witchcraft and Female Sexuality The power of lust toward women has always been a way to uplift a community while creating a threat to men. Women were thought of as healers only to be persecuted for their natural maternal instinct. The ability to both heal a body and an erection gave women in 1692, a horrible fate ending in death or excommunication from their church. The way of women to have the sensual touch and to fulfill the desires in the darkness of night led many to believe women to hold a certain power over men. The warm mouth of the womb desired by many a man could only divert the temptation and cause of the man or woman to sway to the dark side. The Devil is known to work his evil intent on that of the idiotic woman who hath no thought for herself. …show more content…

Karlsen tells of the Devil’s seduction in Witches & Historians, “But the erotic power witches were thought to wield over possessed females was only rarely explicit during possession; when openly mentioned, it was not the witch but the Devil himself who seduced female bodies and promised to satisfy women’s carnal desires.” (Mappen 121) The sexual appetite of witches was thought to be on the prowl for young girls and the unmarried to sign their name in the Devil’s book. Helping take part in planting the seed of evil on this newfound Garden of Eden the Puritans believed they inhabited.
The underlying factor of possession was known as the witches way of working with the Devil to carry out the necessary diabolism. Possession is a way to recruit younger girls to do the Devil’s work. This can be seen in many cases of accusation involved in the Salem Witch Trials. Older widowed women blamed for possessing the adolescent girls of the village. “Most witches were guilty of seduction only in the minds of their accusers” claims Karlsen (Mappen

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