Witchcraft…

From what I gathered about early witchcraft honestly almost makes me feel bad for these women.  They were so caught up on needing love and wanting to make sure that they were not cheated on that their numerous love potions made them look incredibly selfish and needy.  I can understand the use of  ”love potions” but lets get real.  If you were a witch don’t you think you would be trying to create much more extreme potions and spells? Perhaps to fly, or to make you become invisible, or even to make you morph into other people or objects…

Now that I think about it this might actually show the stereotypical differences in women and men.  Women, usually considered very emotional beings were obsessed with the idea of potions for love and submissiveness. the female witches want to catch men cheating of keep them from cheating. I cannot help to think that If there were more wizards around that the spells would be physical (as mentioned above)

I think I am on the same page with everyone else when it comes to punishment of witchcraft practice. Other than thinking of a cauldron and big green nose, when I hear the word witch I think of Salem witch trials and burning at the stakes. As Behar pointed out though, It was not taken this seriously in Colonial Spain.  Yes the church did take sexuality seriously and yes, these witch were incorporating sexuality into their “spells” but the fact is that they were just not taken seriously at all. In colonial Spain, witchcraft practice was punished with a slap on the wrist and some good old down home bible study.