Bridget Bishop, routine photos

Holding space for my sister witches today. This costume is so dear to my heart because it was designed and hand sewn by my dear friend @gs.mte for my routine honoring Bridget Bishop. Hers was the very first life taken in the Salem Witch Trials. The very first of 19 lives in Salem. On the day she was hanged, she walked to the gallows wearing red. The color associated with hellfire and damnation. Though, only 19 were tried and executed by hanging, (not burned at the stake) for practicing witchcraft in Salem at that time. However the Salem trials occurred late in the history of witch hunting. Noted primarily throughout Europe, which was in full hunt season from the 1580s to the 1630s. Almost three-fourths of those European witch hunts took place in Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Though not all deaths are recorded, it is generally believed that around 110,000 people in total were tried for witchcraft and imprisoned, tortured or otherwise dealt with, and between 40,000 to 60,000 were killed. Humans make up the stupidest reasons for killing people they consider to be difficult. Many of the people considered to be witches were merely midwives, scientists, nurses and Community educators or spiritual leaders who did not follow the puritanical rules of religion of the time. They were not killing witches, they were killing what they feared the most, leaders of the community, who believed in science and treasured autonomy. They were discarding problematic young women and some men who were entirely too headstrong for their community leaders to tolerate, or killing members of society who inconveniently suffered from mental illness. They were thinning the heard and eliminating inconvenient humans, like Bridget Bishop. A bar owning, flamboyant woman with property and no husband. Pics by king Jeremy