Once, there were witches. No. There were never witches. Not in the way men said, anyway.
Once,
there were many Indigenous polytheist and animist faith traditions in
what is now Western Europe. Their customs supported varying levels of
respect and authority for women. They had holy women, woman healers, and
woman leaders.http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/10/this-is-how-they-broke-our-grandmothers/