WitchesAmerican history has few subjects as interesting as witchcraft, becauseit confronts us with many Ideas about women. It confronts us with fears aboutwomen, the place of women in society, and with women themselves. Also, itconfronts us with violence against women and how the problems of society wereoften blamed on women. Even though some men were executed as during periods ofwitch hunting, witches were generally thought of as women and most who died inthe name of witchcraft were women. In the United States, witchcraft took placeamong too educated of people to dismiss it as mere "superstition." (P.10)The first person that was executed, as a witch, in America was MargaretJones, in 1648. Jones was a midwife and lay healer, who was accused of severaldifferent practices.
