Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound

"Double double toil and trouble" is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth that conjures images of evil witches making potions in giant cauldrons. But the truth was that women persecuted as witches were probably legitimate healers of the time.

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