Witches of all power

From what I know about witches, they are either mischievous or manipulative women that use their power to either bind people to their will or pull cruel tricks to their expense. But from the reading, Aunt Maria, I've gotten a different taste as to what witches do with their power and how they act upon it. There are only a few details that pertain to theme that make them a stereotype to other witches I've seen. They are pertained as old, weak women but have amazing power and control on the male species. Aunt Maria also takes the villains role of appearing to be weak but has control over the entire town and make the men her puppets. What are some differences to her compared to other witches is that she exhibits her weakness as to old age and manipulates her family. What makes this unique is that the way she gets people to do things for her is similar to how regular humans do so. Rather if their injured or weak or even old, the guilt of seeing them helpless makes people have to take care of them. Those qualities still exist in everyday life and are acted upon by people constantly.

What makes this similar to the way our culture models female is that it interprets women wanting their way while the men just follow helplessly to their control. And if children try to interfere they have them all grouped together into an orphanage. Some women (specifically to feminist) view men as unruly creatures that need to either back off or know their place. Our culture's women with power like to think of themselves as the dominant species and look down upon any action man would take. While there are many similarities between the witches of Black Maria and today's society it was a good read and brought back a lot of old memories to how manipulation and control works in civilization.