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Halloween is now upon us and the same myths about witchcraft immerge. It is said that men targeted women as witches but if you look back to history about 25% of those that were thought to be witches were men.
It is also a myth that the most common women who were targeted were those who were midwives, but again if you look to the facts, midwives were very rarely accused of being witches.

I’m sure that most of us have heard the story about the water test which involved dropping suspected witches in water. The myth goes that if they sank they were innocent and that if they floated they were guilty. This act happened very rarely and there was often ropes tied to the suspects in order to pull them out.

These myths are always good story telling, but that’s exactly what they are, Myths.