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Nah.
Witches were post-menopausal women without men in their lives, for whatever reason. Thus useless with no perceived place in a patriarchal world.
There’s also a strong hx of docs being upset with midwifery types infringing on their space. This challenged patriarchy.
Generally independent and knowledgeable women, well fuck. We can’t have that. They must be a witch which will justify us getting rid of them.
A widow might also have property, if there was no son or other male to inherit it. If she were hanged for witchcraft or died during the ~~tortue~~trials, (or in a different era if she were permanently institutionalized for hysteria) her property would be forfeit.
There’s a book out there called Devil in the Shape of a Woman that gets into it. Side text we read in a history class because the main history texts didn’t really cover it at that time.