![]() In Defense of Witches reorients past and present events and further exposes the subterfuge that has monumentalized a patriarchal worldview. Second, witches are embedded in our histories. Chollet’s work forces readers to stop to consider why that is. They’re everywhere – in our stories, art, fictions, and fashions. First, witches have a prolificity in culture, and Chollet makes it clear. ![]() The work is organized through three main ideas. In that sense, for most, her book will be rewriting history. Even a devoted reader will find it difficult to think of a book besides Chollet’s that does more to redirect preconceptions of how the world was formulated. ![]() In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial, by Mona Chollet, is a revelatory collection of histories and experiences that have been carefully ignored across centuries of time. ![]()
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