Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Occult Literature 386: The Book of Witches" video.

Blacksmithing was considered witchcraft by the Catholics, but they also saw it as useful, so, they turned their eyes away, and accepted it. There is some truth in that the female population did follow the fertility rites of the ancient past, and they were condemned by the men and aristocracy in Greece and Rome. Evidently, the females were who first introduced the rights in both cultures. The Eleusinian mysteries, on the other hand, seems to have been popular with the men, and that was where buggery took place.
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