I Was Not a Witch, but Now I Am a Witch

Mary Webster was beaten and hung from a tree before being buried in the snow. In 1995, Margaret Atwood published a poem entitled Half-Hanged Mary about her ordeal. The poem ends with a line that makes a person wonder: "Before, I was not a witch, but now I am one"

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