Saturday, November 01, 2025

Oh, that's just reminding me there's a lot worse things than "being woo" again!

"But from the 14th to the mid-18th century, with the rise of university education, coupled with the increasing power of the church, women healers were often demonised.

University graduates were favoured instead. Women folk healers were now commonly labelled as 'witches' and subjected to torture and execution."

~ Anthony Booker

"Women folk healers were branded as witches..."

https://theconversation.com/women-folk-healers-were-branded-as-witches-but-their-treatments-may-have-been-medically-sound-266406

"Tori Amos' mystical world is not woo-woo..."

Salon

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oJLrDY9fPvQ&si=rzg2XGbezZvHJ3L7

Flight Of The Conchords | "The Summer Of 1353 (Woo a Lady)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p2zwmsIT2vs&si=Inmgvm263A7wb0xO

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