Frisky men of God and Witches

Posted by Gerda Wever-Rabehl Oct 24, 2006

Given that it's Halloween soon, I got to thinking about witches. That whole witch-hunt, what was that really about? Somehow, I've got a hunch that it had a lot to do with sex.

Just think about those poor Church fathers. Frisky as hell, but no way to do anything about it. Some of 'm got so frisky that they were just about obsessed with women. They started to think up all these stories about witches having sex with Satan. The strangest stories started popping up, about witches having sex with satanic creatures with horns, big red tails and insatiable sexual appetites. Or stories of women who put long sticks between their legs, rub on a magic unguent and fly off to have sex with some evil spirited male goat.

Nobody at the time thought of these stories as evidencing a serious mental illness. Instead, millions of pious Christians bought it.

But you see what I think is that those frisky Chucrh fathers needed an outlet. These erotic stories about witches, Satan and sex did the job. The stories they came up with made erotic art and literature an OK thing in the eyes of the Church. It was, you could say, pornography produced, sanctified and glorified by the good old Church fathers themselves. But I don't think that's the whole story.

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