# Feminism-has-satanic-roots rebuttal > [!quote] > Texts like the Malleus Maleficarum "tried to spread fears about witchcraft and said that some midwives were actually witches" — medieval propaganda later conflated with modern symbolism to manufacture a persecution narrative. The rebuttal exposes the three-step laundering move: fabrication → treated as fact → used to cast a modern group as ancient evil; defending the historical persecution is itself authoritarian politics. ## Links - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Historical Propaganda Manufactures Legitimacy for Contemporary Persecution]] — this rebuttal supplies the feminism-and-witchcraft case for the broader propaganda-laundering pattern - [[Case Study of Gender Ideology in the ESV]] — a parallel case of institutional power shaping narratives about women, read through cultural-power analysis - [[Faith & Theology MOC]] — the note applies historical-source criticism to a theological claim about women and evil ## Source - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Podcasts/Responding to the claim feminism has satanic roots|Responding to the Claim Feminism Has Satanic Roots]]