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THE WITCHES THEY BURNED WERE HEALERS: The Dark History the Church Doesn’t Want You To Remember

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The Dark History the Church Doesn’t Want You To Remember
By A.L. Childers

Trigger Warning:
If you like your history sanitized, skip this.
If you prefer your lies sweetened, move along.
If you can’t handle women’s bodies, blood, power, or the truth—
this isn’t for you.

But if you’re ready to understand the REAL reason thousands of women were tortured and executed—

Keep reading.

This is the part of history they buried with the bones.

The Witch Hunts Weren’t About Witches.

They Were About Women Who Knew Too Much.

Let’s get something straight:

Europe wasn’t afraid of magic.
It was afraid of women with medical knowledge.

The women who:

  • delivered babies
  • treated infections
  • created birth control
  • ended dangerous pregnancies
  • knew herbs that stopped bleeding
  • eased menstrual pain
  • managed menopause
  • healed the poor
  • saved lives

Those women were “witches.”

Not because they performed spells.

But because they didn’t need permission from the church or the men running it.

And a woman who doesn’t need permission
has always been the greatest threat to power.

⚠️ The Church Didn’t Hunt Witches —

It Hunted Midwives.

The most persecuted woman in medieval Europe?

Not the fortune teller.
Not the widow with a black cat.
Not the girl with a birthmark.

It was the midwife.

A woman who:

  • helped women survive childbirth
  • kept families alive
  • understood anatomy better than male physicians
  • treated illnesses with herbs
  • provided birth control (yes, they absolutely did)
  • performed abortions when necessary
  • kept communities alive without the church’s blessing

So the Church did what every insecure institution does
when someone threatens its power:

It weaponized fear.

📜 The Malleus Maleficarum:

The Most Hateful Book Ever Written About Women

Published in 1487, taught for centuries, approved by the Church—

It claimed:

  • women are intellectually weak
  • women are spiritually corrupt
  • women are slaves to sexual desire
  • midwives kill babies for Satan
  • herbal healers are in league with demons
  • women with knowledge must be “eradicated”

You read that right:

“Eradicated.”

Not corrected.
Not converted.
Not guided.

Eliminated.

This wasn’t religion.

This was policy.

💀 Let’s Talk About the Gore They Don’t Teach in School

You want truth?

Here it is—raw, unfiltered, and historically accurate.

Women were tortured with devices you aren’t supposed to know existed:

🔪 The Strappado

Arms tied behind their back.
Suspended by a rope.
Shoulders ripping out of their sockets.

🔥 Burned Alive

Slowly.
Feet first.
So the crowd could enjoy the “show.”

🩸 The Iron Pear

A metal device inserted into the vagina and cranked open
until flesh tore and the body went into shock.

💧 Dunking Tests

Drown = innocent.
Float = guilty, then killed anyway.

This wasn’t superstition.

This was state-sanctioned torture
disguised as a moral crusade.

🧪 The Real Reason They Were Murdered:

Women Controlled Healthcare

Before modern medicine:

Women ran the medical world.

They were the healers.
The surgeons.
The pharmacists.
The fertility experts.
The therapists.
The midwives.

And the church hated that.

Why?

Because women’s knowledge:

  • didn’t require priests
  • didn’t require confession
  • didn’t require payment
  • didn’t require obedience
  • didn’t reinforce patriarchy
  • didn’t keep people afraid
  • didn’t make the powerful powerful

So they burned it out of them.

One woman at a time.
One town at a time.
One generation at a time.

⚰️ What They Destroyed Wasn’t Magic —

It Was Medicine

Midwives knew the body better than men for 5,000 years.

And after the witch hunts?

Their knowledge vanished.

Or worse—

Was plagiarized by male physicians who claimed they “discovered” what women had passed down for centuries.

Imagine burning the library of Alexandria
and then acting like you invented literacy.

That’s what the witch hunts were.

👶 Modern Parallels (Yes, We’re Still Living Through It)

You think the witch hunts are over?

Look around.

Women still face:

  • medical gaslighting
  • reproductive control
  • dismissal of pain
  • abortion bans
  • forced pregnancies
  • maternal mortality
  • male-dominated medical boards
  • lack of autonomy in childbirth
  • criminalization of miscarriage
  • laws policing women’s reproductive organs

You don’t need a stake
to kill a woman’s autonomy.

You just need policy.

You just need religion in politics.

You just need men who fear female knowledge.

Sound familiar?

It should.

The witch hunts never ended.
They just traded bonfires for courtrooms.

**They didn’t burn witches.

They burned women who healed—
and called it righteousness
because the truth was too dangerous
for the men who ran the world.**

📚 Read the Full Chapter

In my book,
The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption
by A.L. Childers

This is the chapter people will talk about.
The chapter that rips the curtain off history
and forces you to confront what was taken from women—
and why.

The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption

A.L. Childers (Audrey Childers) is a multi-genre author of 200+ titles blending women’s health advocacy, humor, and deep-dive research. Her mission is to help women navigating hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s, perimenopause/menopause, and everything in between make informed choices—without fear-mongering. Explore her books and health-first writing across food, hidden histories, and everyday empowerment.

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