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Where the witches were men: A historian explains what magic looked like in early modern Russia

  • Written by Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Where the witches were men: A historian explains what magic looked like in early modern Russia'A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,' a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov.Tretyakov Gallery/Wikimedia Commons

The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But that hasn’t always been the face of sorcery.

Most of Catholic and Protestant Europe embraced the idea of...

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