The Cruelty of Witches

It's very clearly about fear of loss of a child. Aimed out makes it just so nasty and malicious, but that it comes from the fears of child abduction or maybe just losing them in that way. It sounds like folktale type origins that have been made more sophisticated in this poetry,. But when you're using this sort of poetry and literature to formulate what people might perceive a witch to be, that can then be applied to the little old lady who lives at the end of the market. That suggests to us that suspicion of childless or older women.