Misogyny’s deadly history
Listen to the latest episode here: Bitchstory Here’s a surprising subject for Bitchstory- Let’s talk about the King James version of the Bible…the good ol’ KJV and it’s flowery Shakespearean language. No, I haven’t fallen and smacked my head. Stay with me… The King James Version has shaped Christianity, literature, and the English language for more than four hundred years. But here’s the part most of us never learned in school. The same King James who commissioned that famous Bible also wrote a book called Daemonologie (aka Demonology) Published in 1597, it wasn’t about faith or salvation. It was a treatise on witchcraft—a guide Let’s talk explaining how to identify witches, how they supposedly behaved, why they were a threat, and how they should be prosecuted. James genuinely believed witches were conspiring with the Devil, and because he was king, those beliefs carried enormous weight throughout Scotland . Whether King James personally hated women is a more nuanced h...