Watch or listen to Illustrating the Salem Witch Trials: Ben Wickey on His Graphic Novel More Weight to learn about this amazing new literary work.
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They would have her climb a tree, and she would climb a tree, and they would cut it down. If she survived, okay. she was a witch, because the devil saved her. If she didn't survive, she wasn't a witch, but she'd be dead.
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Origin Story of World Day Against Witch Hunts August 10th

In the witch trial era, the witch was understood as an entirely malign concept. This perception was based on the belief that a person could covenant with the devil to gain power to harm others, to hurt their community, to go against the plan of the patriarchal government and ministers.

Witches?! In Salem!? tries to be a very, like, faithful retelling of sort of the actual history while also, you know, adding in sort of the aspects of modern-day that maybe correlate a little bit with it and sort of try to draw a horrible sense of, like, humor.

Juneteenth, Freedom Day, marks the momentous occasion on June 19th, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

Today is International Albinism Awareness Day. Take in what Jay says is being done to persons with albinism.
"People are using the body parts of people with albinism to perform ritual and that is causing mayhem or causing people with albinism to lose their lives, because of other people beliefs."

There was over 35 people who were accused of witchcraft and interrogated in Paisley, Scotland, and out of the 35, 8 of them were found guilty. Seven were executed on June 10, 1697.

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"Misogyny pervades every, every aspect of the early modern witch hunts. Absolutely. The Malleus Maleficarum, which you mentioned, by Heinrich Kramer or Heinrich Instatoris, one of the foundational demonological documents of the witch hunts, just noxious in its misogyny"
Dr. Michael Ostling

"As I said, I was born in an island. This island was populated about 600 people. Unfortunately, I was the first one to be born unique, born with another color, which wasn't so much appreciated, welcomed."
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"I can't wait to see the tomorrow whereby a person will not define me by my appearance, but will define me by my abilities."
Peter Ogik
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