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What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence

Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 25

The week in TV: The Flight Attendant; Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts; Tokyo Vice; Big Boys

Sky’s spiky airline espionage veers off course; 90s noir hits Japan; and Derry Girls’s Dylan Llewellyn stars in a big-hearted campus comedy

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2022

Prejudices that led to witch-hunts still affect women today, says historian

Lucy Worsley, whose BBC TV series focuses on powerless people, says women continue to bear brunt of men’s rage

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2022

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Edinburgh's history of brutal witch hunts to be explored in new BBC documentary

British historian Lucy will be heading to Edinburgh and East Lothian to investigate a series of different chapters in the history of the UK - including witchcraft

Edinburgh Live · May 16, 2022

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