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Feminist Psychology.
Ghosts & Witches — A 16th Century Feminist Tool?
Why feminism and other forensic psychology matter’s matter.
Women and other marginalized intersections of gender, race, ability, and status have created and utilized various tools to be seen and heard through the centuries of christian and WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic) world domination.
Even anthropologists, through their misinformed etic renditions, provided a backdrop for the less misguided members of western society to consider.
As we see today in the tacky marketing of quantum theories entangled with ancient beliefs, such indigenous stories had to be first popularized or sparkleized before humans took an interest, shamans became popular in the same way Ayahuasca has been trended today.
It’s 1604 and a hot and dry day in Hordaland. Andreas, a local newlywed and less popular young lady of the town, has lit a candle and set down to read in front of the fire as the last of the suns rays depart the flagstone.
Tortured by the pinching in her lower back and the aggravations of the day, Andreas let her eyes retire as she focussed on the details, a trick her good friend and local butikkarbeider had taught her, think of one thing you’d like done to perfection, and think only of that, all this town gossip will whittle away like cotton thistle.
As the last of the flames flickered into the night a rustling could be gleaned in the distance, then more rustling, till rustling became bustling. A group of around nine villagers had torn through Andreas’
