Witches have a different social status today than in centuries past when women like Joan of Arc were burnt at the stake and New England women were tried and tortured to confess being witches, rather than healers and midwives.
Today, Harry Potter has transformed witchcraft into a reputable profession and turned J.K Rowling into a multi-millionaire. But around the same time as Arthur Miller’s play, 'The Crucible', recalled the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, a similar sort of misogyny was taking place in the mountain village of Triori, Italy in 1587.
