"witch" was just a psychotic, criminal woman, oftentimes a murderer, but because men always have been simps, on paper they pretended she was like, doing satan things and stuff, because they didn't want to admit women can be nuts. So in that sense witches were real.
That wasn't not the case in the witch panic events, mass hystarias involving often hundreds of accused (the accused in turn accusing the others under torture with outlandish claims being taken seriously, similar to the Soviet spymania of the 1930s during the Great Purge).
"witch" was just a psychotic, criminal woman, oftentimes a murderer, but because men always have been simps, on paper they pretended she was like, doing satan things and stuff, because they didn't want to admit women can be nuts. So in that sense witches were real.
That wasn't not the case in the witch panic events, mass hystarias involving often hundreds of accused (the accused in turn accusing the others under torture with outlandish claims being taken seriously, similar to the Soviet spymania of the 1930s during the Great Purge).