Thoughts on witchcraft

After reading Witches & neighbors : the social and cultural context of European witchcraft by Robin Briggs, I became convinced that accusations of witchcraft are the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment equivalent of civil damage/malpractice suits...

*sigh* Get it right, people: it was the Jews they massacred for not catching illnesses (and sometimes they substituted any handy local groups of foreigners if they couldn't get Jews or hated the foreigners more). Making people sick, ruining their crops, or curing people when they were beyond human help, THAT was supposed to be witchcraft. (I wonder if they had any wrongful life type witchcraft persecutions...)