The World Book Encyclopedia (2002) describes some of the history as follows: The term witch comes from the Old English word wicca, which is derived from the Germanic root wic, meaning to bend or to turn."" ... Some beliefs about witchcraft may have risen from stories and legends told, possibly around a fire, just as ghost stories are now told around a campfire. ... In author Ann Llewellyn Barstow's book Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts (1994), a typical witch was usually described in this way: "women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full...

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He argued that natural rights should be applied to all human beings, without distinctions of gender, because in nature all persons are equal. ... Her devotion to achieving sexual equality resulted from her belief in the capacities women and her dedication to the principals of the Revolution. ... Her ideas were born from the contradiction that existed between the fundamental nature of the Revolutions principals and the blatant exclusion of the female sex from their application. ... In the October days of 1789 the role of women was quite decisive. ... A second prong of marchers threatened to ope...

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The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. ... Women were made to believe that all would be lost if she violated this restrictive feminine code. ... It claimed that all men and women are created equal and that the history of mankind was a history of repeated injuries and injustices by men toward women (Wheeler "The History"). ... A marriage without passion guarded a Victorian woman from the pain of a relationship that fell short of her expectations. ... Inwardly, she wished to...

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