"When male by female is put to flight, and Argos' name with honor is bright, many an Argive wife will show both cheeks marred with scars of woe." - Prophecy of the Oracle at Delphi After the Spartan army had defeated the Argives at Sepeia and defiled the sacred grove of Argus, they laid siege to the city itself. Herodotus writes: "Telesilla took all the slaves and all such male citizens who through youth or age had been unable to bear arms, and made them man the walls, and gathering together...
They didn’t burn witches in the 17th century, they burned women—women who were beautiful and intelligent. They were skilled with medicinal herbs. They had a great connection to nature. They painted and danced and sang. Women who were ahead of their time. We were taught to fear the witches, not those people who burned them alive. —susanb