Caesarian births directly affecting human evolution

[Fake Messiah]

It really is incredible how strongly the human species' evolution led to development over ease of birth.  I mean. . . millions of years of high, high, high infant mortality rates in exchange for bipedalism and big brains.  What an incredible evolutionary tight-rope we must have walked that even today, so many truly natural child births might be fatal.  I don't know the stats on live births for other animals, but I'm guessing they must be better than those of humans?

Yeah, but it also draws speculations how people started believing in witches.
Since women were baby-machines, until quite recent times and if one child did not kill her in its coming forth, the next one might, so old women were even rarer than old men. Their role was to have baby after baby and to stay indoors. Mere age, therefore, did not lend old women the valuable leadership qualities it lent old men. Therefore when some woman did manage to get to the old age people were scared at the sight (because they could not hide their face behind beard) and imediatly started having hallucinations that they're withces.
Therefore, while one could speak of old men's wisdom, one laughed at and scorned "old wives' tales." This is done even in the Bible, where the godly are warned to keep away from foolish superstition. "But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness".
Add to that women, having to deal with children's illnesses, would pass on to each other a great many home remedies, most of which did no harm, at least, and helped psychologically. An old woman was, therefore, very often the village doctor, and was the local expert in herbs, infusions, decoctions, and spells (like Grannie in "The Beverly Hillbillies").
Although they should have been respected they had to be feared as well. After all, spells and medicine can kill as well as cure and, with such powerful control over human life in her withered old hands, who could tell what an old woman might choose to do? In this balance between respect and fear, fear won the day.
And even if you go to some older cities in Europe you can see on some older buildings (that managed to be managed) devices on the roofs, from the past centuries, with spikes so that witches can't land on them.