Weaving and Spinning Women: Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu: Reviewed by Carol P. Christ
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Marina Levy
2380 days ago
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Our European ancestors did not just sit down and get on with the work of spinning and weaving. They invoked female powers–Goddesses, ancestresses, and spirits– when they began to spin and used their distaffs (wooden sticks or poles that held the unspun flax or wool) as divining tools and magic wands.