Superstition in Her Hands

Old Wives' Tales, Witchcraft, and the Secrets of Women’s Medicine

De: Robyn Hatfield

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

For most of American history, women were the primary healers of their families and communities. Long before hospitals, OB-GYNs, or prenatal vitamins, women knew how to soothe menstrual pain, ease childbirth, manage postpartum recovery, treat infections, and nurse their households through illness with nothing but plants, boiling water, intuition, and inherited wisdom. They learned by watching their mothers and grandmothers. They learned by listening to elders. They learned by experimenting quietly and observing carefully, because women did not have the luxury of failing twice.

And yet, for centuries, much of women’s knowledge was dismissed as superstition.