“The superior learning of witches was recognized in the widely extended belief of their ability to work miracles. The witch was in reality the profoundest thinker, the most advanced scientist of those ages. As knowledge has ever been power, the church feared its use in women's hands, and leveled its deadliest blows at her." - Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1893 - - Artworks created from antique and vintage fabric, fire, wood, ash and ember.