Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:07:49 PM CET
Researchers sympathise with male witches
Academics say historians have ignored the suffering of thousands of male witches. Canadians Andrew Gow and Lara Apps say they have been marginalised by researchers who have focussed on the persecution of female witches. They claim 25% of the estimated 60,000 witches executed in Europe between 1450 and 1750 were men.
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