Exploring the relationship between climate and witches

Witch killings are something that has happened in multiple cultures and periods. Innocent people, traditionally women, were blamed for bad harvests, unfaithful spouses, and accidents at home and then ostracised or executed. In recent years, a new paradigm in history, archaeology, and anthropology proposes that climate change and climatic shifts led to an uptick in witch persecutions. This article examines, even briefly, the evidence for such a theory. This very interesting article was submitted to the 2024/2025 Women’s History Competition.
AUTHOR: LEON CORNEILLE-COWELL