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"...those feelings of anguish and rage are the same itch the seed feels in the last days of Winter, before it bursts open and sends out its buds into the world... Remember this story, and there will be hope for Spring."
First published on Unsettling America.
Audio version originally published by Resonance.
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Witch hunting did not end in Europe. In fact it didn't even end. The final chapter of our book.
Mentioned:
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
The anthropologist Michael Taussig
"Conviction: American Panic" podcast
Janet's essay about finding and connecting with nature anywhere 
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Why were women especially targeted by the Witch Hunt? The continuation of Chapter 4.  
Mentioned:
The Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English
Stephany Hoffelt's Domestic Medicine blog
Diane Purkiss
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Arguably the most important chapter of the book. "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe"
Mentioned:
Malleus Maleficarum or The Hammer of the Witches
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Capitalism needed to invent a new kind of person, a new subject to fit into its scheme. Science and rationalist philosophy was happy to provide.
Mentioned on the podcast:
Harriet Washington Medical Apartheid
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel
Excellent critique of Diamond's book from the Savage Minds blog 
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We return to finish chapter 2.
Mentioned on the show:
The podcast series "Seeing White" from Scene on Radio
Dr. Kim Tallbear on For the Wild podcast
 
Music on this episode by Big Blood and I Love You.
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