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    1. her son was unable to help

      See: Rublack U. The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother. OUP Oxford; 2015.

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    1. a defining characteristic of humanity

      how?

    2. We find witchcraft today and in antiquity, in the developing world and in rich nations; it's familiar to young and old, high and low.

      Does this statement apply also to ancient Americas (South Central and North) before Europeans colonized it?

    3. what made them witches?

      Magic and out of the ordinary knowledge

    4. spiritual and mythological meaning

      There were so many basic unknowns in the development of human's understanding of his/her surroundings, of nature phenomena. The amygdala played a crucial role in not only spark emotions in general but specially those that allow humas to survive sensing danger within a very short time span.