Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
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Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
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Cloves to mull, mask and numb
Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.
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Witches apprehended..., 1613
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Witches & wicked bodies / Deanna Petherbridge.
Petherbridge, Deanna, 1939-Date: 2013- Books
Witches & historians : interpretations of Salem / edited by Marc Mappen.
Date: 1980- Pictures
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Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.
Pastelot, Jean Amable Amédée, -1870.Reference: 37979i- Pictures
Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
Biard, François-Auguste, 1798 or 1799-1882.Reference: 37895i