Three Generations of Witches and Female Power in “Weyward” – Chicago Review of Books

Three Generations of Witches and Female Power in “Weyward” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Perhaps there are no more famous witches than Shakespeare’s three “weyward” wenches. The crookedness of the Bard’s (and Britain’s) witches represented a cultural fear of an empty womb—the childless, the menopausal. Women were to be coupled and birthing. If they were not, they were witchy. Evil. Monstrously magical. But, for the reader, the witches … Read more