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Generation Witch

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Invasion of Witchcraft

It's genuinely so grotesque and horrifying that you almost run the risk of that sort of pornography of suffering and misery. It was quite common for women to go to an expert to find out if maybe they were a witch and just didn't know about it. I found myself halfway through the book thinking about Hannah Arendt writing about the banality of evil, just how ordinary it can look.

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