The Witch as Archetype

She’s not what you think . . .

The witch is not a horror symbol but a symbol of liberation. Arthur Miller, as brilliant as he was, got it wrong about the Salem Witch Trails. What was really going on in those Salem woods? American girls like Sarah Good were dancing naked in the forest, smearing menstrual blood as warpaint on their faces, in an inarticulated rage against patriarchal Protestant oppression.