The Invasion of Witchcraft

It was common for women to go to an expert to find out if maybe they were a witch. And just didn't about it really, and that also, i think, is like a quite amazing form of violence into one's own kind of belief about oneself. I found myself half way through the book thinking about hannah arant writing about the mundanity of evil,. Just how ordinary it can look. Absolutely. It's almost like those photos of people who were working at the concentration camps, you know, running the gas chambers, these sorts of things. They took on the week ends of their picnics. And, oh no. The intimacy of the cruelty that's so chilling