A review of 'How To Kill A Witch - A Guide For The Patriarchy' by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, a spin-off from the Witches of Scotland podcast. The book covers the Scottish Witch Trials, examining whether witchcraft accusations were genuine beliefs or tools of oppression against women. The reviewer praises the visceral historical descriptions and illustrations, but finds the author-centric podcast-style writing somewhat distracting and dislikes the imagined monologues from historical figures. A minor factual nitpick is raised about the book's misuse of historical life expectancy statistics. The book concludes with a sobering note that witch trial dynamics persist in parts of the modern world.
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