Trials tortures executions Fire gender extermination Collective hysterics, crazes Mass murder and panics Witch - hunts resulted in trials and tortures and executions Ill - fated heroines exterminated by the holy deadly institution Mere victims of narrow-minded prejudice And fanatical judgment (mass murder) Scapegoats on which every imaginary blame can be laid For male - dominated Christian society Women were anathematized and cast as witches Because of enduring grotesque fears they generated In respect of their presume abilities to control men Witchcraft was one expression Of the constant effort of the race To rid itself of the sick religion imposed on it