I was excited to use Halloween as an excuse to talk about Alewives and how they likely became the blueprint to the scary witch trope we know today. I share a bit of a medieval poem used to disparage a female brew master at the beginning just for fun but you can skip that and go to 4:12 for the podcast.

Happy Halloween!

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Resources:

The Tunning of Eleanor Running - Poetry Foundation

E-text of John Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng

Why Did Women Stop Dominating the Beer Industry - Smithonian Magazine

For Centuries, Women Dominated the Brewing Industry - Atlas Obscura

Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks: How Alewives Became the Stereotypical Witch

Judith M. Bennett - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England - Women's Work in A Changing World, 1300-1600-Oxford University Press, USA (1996) PDF

Alewives in Oxford: A History of Female Brewing - Museum of Oxford

Witchhunts in Early Modern Europe - Gendercide.Org

The History of Midwifery and Childbirth in America: A Time Line

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics) 2010 - Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants -

Wolf-Dieter Storl

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

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