"Perhaps women being targeted as witches in Medieval times wasn't always about supernatural fears - maybe just a disruptive influence on society, especially younger girls and women."

A significant majority of accusers were women.

"J.A. Sharpe also notes the prevalence of women as accusers in seventeenth-century Yorkshire cases, concluding that "on a village level witchcraft seems to have been something peculiarly enmeshed in women's quarrels." To a considerable extent, then, village-level witch-hunting was women's work. (Willis, Malevolent Nurture, pp. 35-36.)"

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