4.5
There's something unbelievably feminist about Witchery and stories surrounding it. And i feel this books encompasses that same sentiment. Women who are allowed to stand by themselves, make their own lives, regardless of the whims of what surrounds them. Powerful women that, because they represented a threat to the power-that-be, were scorned and relegated in the history books.

I kept remembering this article i read a couple months back, so that will be my review.
“Witchcraft — stereotypically, and in cases of actual witch panics — has always been associated with femininity, but it is associated more specifically with marginalized women who have very little worldly power. Old women; poor women; women who were mentally ill, or overly argumentative, or just disliked. [...] A witch is a woman pushed to the edges of society. Yet that same marginal status gives the witch a terrible, shadowy power. She is the threat you don’t see coming, the person you write off until it’s too late [...]. The terror implicit in witchcraft is that the people who supposedly have the least power in our communities may, in fact, have the power of life and death hidden in a back pocket; that, when you address a woman, you can never be sure whether she is powerless or massively, malevolently powerful, and that any slight or insult you inflict on her may come back to haunt you, or even ruin your life. Which is to say: Of course Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders are afraid of witches. Witches exist, pretty much entirely, to keep the Brett Kavanaughs of this world in line. […] Witches don’t accept your apology; witches don’t back down to assuage male pain. Some men go their whole lives punching down at women, and for the most part, they get away with it. The witch is the woman who finally punches back. You won’t know what she is until you’re on the floor spitting out teeth.” (https://medium.com/s/story/the-brett-kavanaugh-backlash-will-make-witches-of-us-all-614b5f7d1e82)