Historian Fact Checks Witchcraft Slop

might actually be a portrait of a medieval businesswoman?

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I don't know what the green gas is.

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and I need a timeline and algorithm cleanse immediately.

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professor and historian of witchcraft and demonology.

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No, it's not. Here's why that matters.

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women called alewives ran the beer industry across Europe.

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Women have always been involved in the brewing industry

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and were really important to the production of ale,

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which is what a lot of people drank in the period,

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given that water was often contaminated, not safe to drink.

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and women were deeply involved in that.

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[Narrator] They wore tall pointed hats.

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[Narrator] So customers could spot them

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They stirred giant cauldrons of brewing ale.

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Beer could be brewed in lots of things,

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It could be brewed in a sort of regular giant sauce pan

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It could be brewed in water buckets.

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It was not always being brewed in cauldrons.

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cauldrons are actually rarely mentioned explicitly,

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even though various domestic instruments

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of cooking and other things do show up.

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A lot of people kept cats, and dogs, and other animals.

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But cats were associated with heresy and the demonic

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long before you have the sort of heyday of the alewife,

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and…

Original source: https://www.wired.com/