I was wondering about the theme of “witches” popping up so frequently recently, but I guess it is not as much of a synchronicity as I might otherwise assume considering it’s Halloween time.
First there was this:
Then that:
… and ultimately the following with written text below the picture:
“It was not witches who burned.
It was women.
Women who were seen as
Too beautiful
Too outspoken
Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously)
Who had a birthmark
Women who were too skilled with herbal medicine
Too loud
Too quiet
Too much red in her hair
Women who had a strong nature connection
Women who danced
Women who sung
or anything else, really.
Sisters testified and turned on each other when their babies were held under ice.
Children were tortured to confess their experiences with “witches” by being fake executed in ovens.
Women were held under water and if they float, they were guilty and executed.
If they sunk and drowned they were innocent.
Women were thrown off cliffs.
Women were put in deep holes in the ground.
The start of this madness was years of famine, war between religions and lots of fear. The churches said that witches, demons and the devil did exist and women were nothing but trouble. As we see even today, there is often a scapegoat created. Everything connected to a women became feared, especially her sexuality. It became labeled as dark and dangerous and was the core of the witch trials through out the world.
Why do I write this?
Because I think the usage of words are important, especially when we are doing the work to pull these murky, repressed and forgotten about stories to the surface. Because knowing our history is important when we are building the new world. When we are doing the healing work of our lineages and as women. To give the women who were slaughtered a voice, to give them redress and a chance of peace.
It was not witches who burned.
It was women.”
It goes hand-in-hand with the shaming of Rh negative women I have recently discussed in the commenting section here:
Have you learned about the “witch”-burnings in school?
What would be your guess as to what percentage of the women who were burned having been Rh negative?
Happy Halloween, Rh negatives!
Don’t let anyone stigmatize you.
And if you happen to identify with a stigma, at least don’t expect others to surrender to such delusion alongside with you.
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i suspect most if not all of the so called witches were RhD-. i see problems w/ jealousy, ignorance, misunderstanding and intolerance being the main flaws & reasons that humans/people act in horrible ways. the fact that RhD- women can have Rh disease affect their children after their first pregnancy/first child, and this fact in the past could’ve made them the focal point for all the blame regarding this problem/issue and many woman could’ve sought herbal remedies and so on to solve this blood type incompatibility. to my mind: many RhD- women could’ve been destroyed and other women who sought to help them w/ this child bearing issue as well from the human flaws i mentioned above. it’s very sad, but probably quite true. never thought about – thought on this before. good post Mike.
if i’m mostly or partly correct about what i posted above…then, this would likely be another reason for RhD- people’s percentages to decline in the general population. lessening the # of RhD- women, especially in the past, would/should mean lessening the # of RhD- people going forward overall surely.
Excellent post!
What a pleasant read through your website & twitter, thanks!
I have always identified myself as a witch… knew too much too soon, was my old mindset. Today, I realize that I came into this realm / planet with the code of knowing. I do struggle a bit with whom / what do I thank, for this rare blood type… I am indeed a witch with a rare blood type and a cauda equina tail… thank goodness I am not ordinary ~ whatever that even is.
I was almost ready to throw in the towel with halloween trick or treating this year as I have vowed to do so before, but decided to compromise like I do so much, give in and attempt to blend in with the revelry. My kids didn’t seem so excited like I had expected, all night there was a terrible cold mist and we all got sick as a result. But instead of moping I spent a lot of time off my feet contemplating what it meant, a warning to me, as this cold cut to the core and I haven’t felt that down in years, my kids felt the same. I won’t be trick or treating next year, and I’ll take it as one of many opportunities to stay in with a big bag of my own sweets, preferably candy that isn’t made from lard or worse. We all agreed we should have done that this year, and I take it as a lesson learned. Never really liked the holiday, it was always a compromise for free candy. I’d rather just go buy it. I feel the same about santa and his free candy canes, or his shoe goodies. No more of that either. Thanksgiving has always been the only holiday I ever enjoyed even as a child, to this day it is my favorite. I wish I could move it back to september and far away from football, but I’ll compromise yet again and appreciate it for what it is, and give a little grace to the neglected month of november. So needless to say, this year I’m thankful for… finding this website, and all the positive knowledge that has been revealed this year to me, and hopefully to you all too!
My mother’s maternal line are from Ireland and my dad’s side from the Basque area of France. The maternal side is where the O neg blood comes from and they also have many traits that would make them practising witches in everything but name. You could stick my mother on Mars and she’d terraform it into a new Eden within a year! My mum’s mum said she heard and saw metaphysical things. Unfortunately, she came from a very strict religious family (brethren) and was given some fairly extreme ‘cures’ such as electro-convulsive therapy that led to her eventual decline and suicide. I really struggled with my own religious upbringing (which was heavily patriarchal) and only recently have started to cut ties with that and venture into paganism, druidism, witchcraft and other more woman-friendly spiritual practices. I have different skills to my mother and grandmother (can draw/paint photorealistically and very good with pattern recognition), so hoping to explore these more in the second half of my life.
The basque paternal DNA are very close to Sardinia and blood type O which was also the bloodtype of Otzi the ice man. O is considered recessive. In my case mother is 0+ and father O- whom has a dutch and German connection. Scientifically speaking , I should have been O+ bloodtype as rhesus negative is also recessive. I am south african with mostly French cantabria / British, Indian and yoruba ancestry according to living dna. There is a high frequencies of rh- factor amongst both certain Indian and yoruba tribes. In 18century Nigerians occupied ireland. They were known as the black Irish that were brought there as servants in white royal class settlements there was also intermarriage between the white and black Irish.
You may be correct in linking rh O neg blood to Ireland, scotland and even wales, but i don’t think it originates there, or with the celts as many might have thought. As an O-, being born out of wedlock and raced by the state having very little information regarding my parentage, I have long searched for my own ancestry, history and origins of surname. As you know all rh- individuals have reported a feeling of not knowing who we are, where we come from and where we belong.. I too have long struggled with this feeling, which lead my on a quest of tons of research. I became an in-depth researchers on ancient civilizations, myths, foklore, religions and even the occult. I had to receive the rh d shot at both my childern’s birth and is a carrier of the ,Congental adrenal Hyperplasia gene, this gene both my husband whom is british and I have passed on to one of our children whom was born with the condition. Upon the discovery of this genetic disease, I began researching where it came from. Turns out it is very common in the US as well as amongst ashkenazi jews, (jews that settled in germany before migrating further into europe) Germany first beloned to Ashkenaz a son of Gomer, hench connected with the scythians who conguered and ruled most of europe. This was known as the land of Magog. The lombards are also a gemanic tribe that sellted in italy and was known as the lombardi and known for their long beards and fair skin. So back to my personal research. The haplogroup K is found amongst the corded ware tribe that sellted in gemany and found amongst the most ashkenazi jews. So i’ve always had a feeling that their is a jewish connection to my son’s condition. Turns out it is so common that in Israel the jewish babies get screened for CAH at birth. Having no paternal dna show up in my dna test, I had to look for alternative proof. Found it in my father’s surname, Craucamp, first nothing showed up for a long time until I came across the variant spelling and variations of this surname. Craucamp was changed from Kroukamp which was derived from Kraukhamer Kraughamer / krouthammer / and even kraughhammer. Looking up this new variation of this mainden name, I came across a website that states Krouthammer and Kraughhamer is a jewish surname found mostly in Argentina. The vast majority of Argentine Jews are descended from immigrants who arrived from Europe. These ashkenazic Jews migrated from small towns or shtetels of Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Germany, Romania or Ukraine, leaving behind most of their Jewish relatives. After two or three generations, those Jewish families lost track of their relatives, having been saved from the war, emigrated to other countries like USA, England or Australia. Some of them came over to S.A, possibly on the dutch colony ship which landed in Cape of good hope. The first person with this surname Johannes Andreas Hendrik Croukamp was born on month day 1770, to Johannes Hendrik / Hendricus / Henry Kraukhamer / Croucamp / Kraucamp and Hendrina Magdalena Kroukamp /croucamp / krauthamer (born van de Caab / Coab). Notice the names are very jewish in origin too. You may wonder what this has to do with Ireland and even scotland, Well good thing i am an in-depth researcher for I did not stop there. Determined to trace this surname to which jewish tribe they belong, i looked up the oriin of Kroughhammer. Turns out Maccabees means hammer in hebrew. The Hebrew may be read as “Hammer,” “Hammerer,” or “Extinguisher. The name Maccabee was a title of honour given to Judas Maccabeus the founder of the hasmonean dynasty, whom was the son of Mattathias and the hero of the Jewish wars of independence, 168–164 BCE. Later the name Maccabees was extended to include his whole family. Matthahias was the great-grandson of Asmon or Hasmonaeus, a Kohen of the lineage of Joarib from the bloodline of Aaron the high priest, thus connected to the levites. So what does this have to do with Ireland? Looking further into the Maccabee surname oriin in ireland and scotland, you can see for yourself here https://www.houseofnames.com/maccabees-family-crest ,https://www.houseofnames.com/MacCabees-family-crest/Scottish. On this website it states that the migration to scotland by the Maccabee family was pre 1700. The history of the Jews in Scotland goes back to at least the 17th century. It is not known when Jews first arrived in Scotland, with the earliest concrete historical references to a Jewish presence in Scotland being from the late 17th century. The maccabee surname has many variations too such as Macabe and McCabe, perhaps you can look it up in your own ancestry. Considering the maccabees war mentioned in the bible. Is it any wonder the maccabee family name’s motto on their family crest and coat of arms is “Either to conquer or die” As for the withcraft connection to this family name lookup the fairy tales connected to the mcabe clan. The kohen priest had spirutal gifts to communicate and tap into the other side of the veil such as Aaron and the high priests did.