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Origin of the witch

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Before modern medicine, which is only a couple of hundred years old, people used to cure themselves naturally. A witch meant wise. Women who birthed babies for thousands of years were recently called witches by male doctors practicing modern medicine. Cures that were used for centuries by families and villages, usually performed by women became demonized by Christianity and Modern Medicine. Their long traditions have come back as Midwives and Homeopathic medicine.

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