Reception in Feminism and Neopaganism
In Neopaganism, especially Wicca, the European witch-hunts tend to be portrayed as persecution of pagans. In second-wave feminism, especially Feminist Wicca, they tend to be portrayed as persecution of women. In both schools of thought, a claim of "nine million women" as victims of the European witch-hunts, a figure more than a hundred times too high and based on an 18th-century estimate, has been frequently repeated throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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