(November 9, 2025 at 2:25 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It also seems to be memorial to the mentality behind the witch persecutions:
The lack of such national memorials does not mean the witch hunt has been forgotten. Its memory has long offered moral lessons for the present.
This growth in grassroots interest has several origins. It partly stems from renewed concern at present-day violence, both against women in general but also against suspected witches in the global south. Our research threw up one memorial in the Indian state of Odisha to deter modern vigilantism.
It also coincides with the popularisation of witch-hunting as a political metaphor and the #MeToo movement. The latter not only encouraged women to call out misogyny, in the process it also highlighted how few statues of non-royal women exist.
No, it doesn’t.
Boru
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