Woman, Church & State / The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex

by Matilda Joslyn Gage

[4] There are hard and ugly facts in this Christendom of ours, and its history includes the serfdom and nihilism of Russia, the drudgery of German women; the wrongs of the Irish peasant girl; the 20,000 little English girls sold each year to gratify the lusts of the aristocracy; all the horrors of the Inquisition; all the burnings of the witches; the slavery and polygamy of America and the thousand iniquities all around us; all these belong to the history of Christendom.—The Woman’s Tribune, Clara Colby, editor.

[5] This case decided adversely to woman’s right of suffrage by the territorial Supreme Court, was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, through the efforts of Mr. A. S. Austin, a young and energetic attorney of Olympia, the state capital; the points raised by Mr. Austin were, First: that the Bloomer case is a collusive one between the original plaintiff and defendants, and is a fraud upon all friends of equal suffrage in the state. Second: that the decision of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory was erroneous in two respects, to wit: that the statute of the territory conferring suffrage was constitutional, and that women are citizens.

[6] At a Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, N.Y.

[7] This was the case at the Republican nominating convention, Chicago, 1880.

[8] The liberty and civilization of the present are nothing else than the fragments of rights which the scaffold and stake have wrung from the strong hands of the usurpers.—Wendell Phillips.

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Index

• Abduction of girls, [84]
• Abbey of Fontevrault, [31]
• Abbesse, L’ de Jouarre, 4[7]
• Accursed Sciences, The, [101], [273]
• Act of Parliament for synonymous with Law of God, [56]
• Adam, [24], [25], [26], [177], [191], [235]
• Agamani Shadee, [13], [14]
• Agar-Ellis Case, [138], [139], [206]
• Age of Protection, [79], [82], [90], [91]
  • “All, The,” [12]
• Albany Law Journal’s “Curious Question”, [139]
• Alruna or “Holy Women,” [21]
• Ames-Nofri-Ari, goddess wife of Amun, [17]
• American Colonies, laws against women, [122], [123], [124], [125], [147], [148]
• American Sabbath Union, [232]
• Amme, The, [282]
• Anaesthetics discovered by Women Doctors, [104], [105], [106], [191]
• Angelique Arnault, Mother, [32]
• “An Unhallowed Thing”—a wife, [33], [38]
• Arabs, Arabic, Arabian, [8], [17], [30]
• Ark, Archa, Argo, [16], [20]
• Aryans, the Ancient, [12], [159]
• Assembly of Diana, [94]
• Ashmolean Library of Oxford, [17]
• Athens, [20], [129], [146]
• Attack upon Science by the Church, [105]
• Athrytes, a princess-prophetess, [18]
• Atrium Vertae, discoveries in the, [19]
• Atlantis, [129]
• Auto da fe, [98], [135], [161]
• Aztec language, its Champollion, [7]
  
• Babel, its meaning, [22]
• Bac, Boc, Bacchus, Bacchus-Sabiesa, [54], [103], [111]
• Banditti of the Middle Ages, [131]
• Baptism of Nude Women, [93]
• Baron of Jauioz, The, [72]
• Berner’s Mr. Bill, [164]
• Bhagavad Gita, [14]
• Birchall Case, The, [136]
• “Birds of the Night,” “Birds of Prey,” [111]
• Black Mass, The, [76], [111]
• Blessing the Nuptial Bed, [68]
• Blockulu of Sweden, [273]
• “Bloody Town, The”, [124], [125]
• Blood hounds for hunting women, [89]
• Boehme, Jacob, [24]
• Borough-English, [66]
• Boys, destruction of, [85]
• Brank, The, [146]
• “Breasted God, The”, [22]
• Breton Ballad of Fourteenth Century, [72]
• Bull Against Priestly Lechery, [41], [42]
• “Burning Place of the Cross, The,” [98]
• Buying wives, [131], [132]
  
• Caesar, deification of, [76], [77]
• Canadian Review, [260]
• Canadian Colonies, vice in, [85]
• Canon Law, its injury to woman, [19], [37], [50], [51], [53], [54], [55], [57], [58], [60], [62], [213], [260]
• Canons of Cathedral of Lyons, [67]
• Cannon, George Q., [182]
• Cape of Good Hope, Colony of, [78]
• Cardinal Antonelli, [46], [59]
• Catayana, compilation of laws, [13]
• Cats, Black burned with witches, [94]
• Cats, mesentery of, [102]
• Catherine de Medicis, [27]
• Catherine, wife of Peter the Great, baptized nude, [93]
• Catholic Review, The, [284]
• Celibacy, its notable consequences, [33], [36]
• Chaldea, Ancient, [7], [101]
• Chang Lai Sin, on Chinese women, [20]
• Charlemagne, his influence on the Church, [51];
  • his Polygamy, [175]
• Chastity Belt, The, [155]
• Chastity of Concubinage, unchastity of marriage taught, [33], [35], [36], [38], [40], [41], [42], [43], [45], [46], [47], [48]
• Chief High Priest, Egyptian, [17]
• Child took precedence of Father, [8]
• Chinese girl slaves to Europeans, [79]
• Chili, Chilian women penitents, [47], [48]
• Child criminals rapidly increasing, [91]
• Chiniquy, Rev. Charles, [43]-45, [257]
• Chivalry injurious to women, [51]
• Christine of Pisa, [51], [92]
• Christian Party in Politics, The, [189]
• Christianity teaches the existence of a superior and an inferior sex, [208]
• Christianized Indians, laws for women of, [232]
• Christianity of little value to civilization, [239]
• Christendom dragged to darkness, [65]
• Christian Register, The (Boston), [220]
• Christian Union, The, [134], [225], [228]
• Church, the Priest’s spouse, [32]
• Church, The, and civilization antipodal, [243]
• Churchman, The, [204]
• Churching of women, [21], [28], [218]
• Chrysies, Priestess of Juno;
  • importance of the office, [20]
• Circe, a renowned physician, [106]
• City of God, [207], [270], [274]
• Civilization not dependent upon the Pulpit or the Press, [190]
• Cleveland, Grover, as President, sends a gift to Pope Leo XIII, [64]
• Code of Canon Law, [51]
• Code of England, [150]
• Code Penal of Italy, [161]
• Code Penal of India, [79]
• Code of Love, [261]
• Code Napoleon, [160], [161], [255], [257]
• Codes, two, of Morals, [20], [34], [48], [136], [163], [208], [215], [222], [234], [245]
• Commercial Advertiser, The Pittsburgh, [46]
• Commercial, The Cincinnati, [200]
• Common Law Corrupted by Canon law, [52]
• Commandments, The, [28], [223]
• Common Law, [37], [58]
• Common Mother, [8]
• Common, Boston, The, [125]
• Comforter, The, [112]
• Community of women proposed, [51]
• Concubines, priests’ known as “The Honored Ones,” “The Hallowed Ones,” [38], [163]
• Convent of Penitents, [48]
• Conversation with women forbidden, [29]
• Corpuscles, The, Pacinian, [101]
• Councils, Church, [27], [31], [32], [33], [34], [37], [39], [50], [54], [94], [95], [96], [210]
• Council Houses of the Six Nations, [10]
• Council of Matrons to whom all disputed questions were referred, [10]
• Court of Arches, [55]
• Courier, The Syracuse, [287]
• Cuissage, droit de, [68], [75], [85]
• Coverture, [143], [155], [168]
• Cowyll, The, [159]
  
• Dancing Mania cured by women doctors through Similia Similibus Curantur, [106]
• Danes, Danish, Denmark, [11], [152], [155], [159]
• Darkest Africa, [7], [169]
• Darkest England, [169]
• Darkest New York, [204]
• Dark Continent, the children’s paradise, [202]
• “Daughter of the Deity,” [17]
• Daughters, sale of, [131], [133], [134]
• Davenport’s Rules for his wife, [141]
• Declaration of Montreal Women against the Confessional, [43]
• Decretals, [25], [55], [57]
• Delphian Shrine, The, [18]
• Detention Houses of, [48]
• “Devil Bride, The”, [111]
• Diaz, President, his brave course, [47]
• Digest of Hindoo Law, Colebrook’s, [13]
• Disease of the Cloisters, [27], [34]
• Doctors, Women discover Anaesthetics, [104]
• Dodge’s Judge, grounds of decision in the “Lucy Walker Case,” i.e. Seney trial, [139], [140], [141]
• Domstroii, The, [165]
• Dowers, [157], [158], [159], [281]
• Ducking Stool, [122], [142], [146], [147]
  
• Eastre, Eostre, [103]
• Egypt, Egyptians, [9], [16], [17], [18], [21], [30]
• England, [11], [78], [233]
• Endowment House, [93], [183], [185]
• Elementals, The, [24], [100], [101], [108]
• Eton, its depravity, [85]
• Evarts, Hon. Wm., on woman under the law, [20]
• Evangelist, The N.Y., [213]
• Eve, [24], [25], [39], [177], [235], [283]
  
• “Fathers”, The Christian, [24], [33], [42], [52], [235], [236]
• Father takes name of child, [8]
• Father-rule, [21]
• Famines result from persecution of women, [125]
• Feudalism, [76]
• Feudal Lords, their claims, [66], [67], [68], [69], [80], [81]
• Feudal Period, The, [67], [74], [161]
• Finns, Finland before introduction of Christianity, [20]
• Finland in 1892, [137]
• Fontevrault, Order of, Woman the General of the Order, power of its Abbesses, [31];
  • its monks under the control of the nuns, [31]
• Forum, recent discoveries in, [19]
• Fou Fou, i.e., Father-Mother God, [24]
• France, woman’s condition in, [67], [72], [160], [161], [196]
• Frenchmen, cause of their decreasing size, [196], [197]
• Freidrich, William I, his concession to the lecherous demands of the Gavelkind, [152];
  • State, [69]
    
• Georgia River, its natives protect women, [134]
• “Ghosts,” Ibsen’s, [163]
• “Giftas,” to marry; Strindberg’s, [164]
• Gifts of Intention, remarkable, [14]
• Girl’s birth, an infliction, [28], [161]
• Girl, a piece of property, [133], [134]
• Girls rule, Gynaikokraty, [11], [134], [135]
• Glanville, [60], [157]
• Globe, The Boston, [205]
• “Go Back,” Wala’s command to the Roman Emperor Druses, [20]
• Goddesses superior to Gods, [8]
• “God’s Hand,” “God’s Star,” [17]
• Good Hope, Cape Colony; legalized vice there, [78]
• Governor of British China on legalized vice there, [78]
• “Government Women,” “Queen’s Women,” [77]
• Government of the United States borrowed from that of the Six Nations, [10]
• “Gowan, The”, [159]
• “Gragas, The” earliest Iceland law, [96]
• Greek Church baptizes its converts nude, [93]
  
• “Hallowed Ones, The,” “Honored Ones, The,” [38], [163]
• Hatasu, the light of the XVIII Egyptian dynasty, [17]
• Hatred of Old Women among Christian nations, [117], [196]
• “Hearth Penny” of St. Peter, [50]
• Heads of the Church, their vice, [82]
• Heke, a witch, wise woman, female deity, [103]
• Herald, the Chicago, [90]
• Herald, the Boston, [286], [287]
• Herald, the New York, [47]
• Herald, the Rochester, [179]
• Herald, the Syracuse Sunday, [287]
• Hexen Sabbat, i.e. Walpurgis Night, [103]
• Hindoo Maxims regarding women, [13], [15]
• Holiness, superior of the unmarried, [32]
• Holiness, superior of male animals, [28]
• Holy women, [20]
• Homer stole the Iliad and the Odyssey, [18]
• Hopkinson Association of Congregational Divines, [212]
• Houses of Detention for women, [48]
• H.R.H., [70]
• Husband cannot steal from wife, [136];
  • orders wife’s religion, [138];
  • has a property interest in wife, 1[40];
  • right to direct religious education of children, [139];
  • right to name child, [138];
  • will of, law, [144];
  • not related to wife’s family, [219]
• HUSBAND and Wife, [220]
• Hutchinson, Mistress Ann, tried for sedition and heresy in teaching men, [124], [125]
  
• Impurity of soul and body throughout Christendom, [33]
• Incubi, The, Incubus, [108]
• Incontinence, of celibate priests, 33-[48]
• Independent, the N.Y., [226]
• Inquisition, [28], [36], [40], [42], [58]
• Inquisitors, Traveling, [98]
• Inter Ocean, The Chicago, [145], [283], [284]
• Ireland, its modern laws, [70]
• Irish women, ancient forms of marriage, [158], [159]
• Isis, Ish-Ish, Ishtar, Izdobar, [16], [18], [20], [250]
• Ivan, the Terrible, [82], [122]
  
• Jauioz, the Baron of, [72]
• Jehovah, a double-sexed word, [22]
• Jewish contempt of the feminine, [254]
• Johnson, Sir Wm., Power of Squaws, [10];
  • Dr. Samuel Johnson on Milton, [177]
• Journal, the Syracuse, [273]
• Jurus, The, [56]
• Jus Primae Noctis, [74], [77]
  
• Keeper of the Wampum, his Matriarchal descent, [10]
• Keshub Chunder Sen, declares English laws degrade women, [13]
  
• Lachis of Athens, her ancient laws, [276]
• Lady of the House, the Beginning and the End, [16]
• Lange, on disappearance of ancient civilization in early days of Christian era, [30]
• Leader, The Topeka, [91]
• Legalized vice in Christendom, [80], [81], [82], [93]
• Libertad, The, of Chili, [173]
• Lords Spiritual, their claims, [68], [267]
• “Lost Name, The,” “The Lost Word,” [32], [109]
  
• Magic, “White” and “Black,” [102]
• Magnetic condition, Four degrees of, [102]
• Maiden Rents, Maiden Redemption, [75], [76]
• Malabar, under the Matriarchate in XV Century, [11]
• Man, his “curse,” [191], [192], [194], [195], [197], [198], [201], [203], [206], [241];
  • his injustice to women workers, [194], [195], [196];
  • his ownership of woman, [140];
  • ruled by his emotions, [243]
• Marco Polo, discovers Matriarchal customs, [8]
• Marchetta, Marquette, [66], [67], [75], [77], [92], [131], [134], [152]
• Margaret, St., [75]
• Marriage a sacrament, [96]
• Marriage, complex, [187]
• Marriage Customs of England, [143]
• Marriage of Equal Dignity, [158]
• Marriage in Ancient Rome, [129]
• Marriage in Russia, [166]
• Marozia, her power over the Papal Throne, [31]
• Martiagium, [8]
• Martia, “The Just,” [56]
• “Masterless Women,” [59], [113], [155], [158]
• Matilda, Countess, her power over popedom, [255]
• Matriarchate, The, form of United States government due to, [10]
• Matriarchate, The, [8], [10], [11], [12], [21], [59], [129]
• Matriarchal, [8], [9], [11], [16]
• Mazzini, his prophecy, [231]
• Medicine, its origin, [16]
• Melancthon, [175], [185]
• Memorial to President Cleveland by the National Woman Suffrage Association, [149];
  • Memorial, [49];
  • Vic, [155]
• Memorial History of the American Episcopal Church, [244]
• Merchetum Sanguinis, [74]
• Metamorphosis, [95]
• Mexico, the church in, [47]
• Minister, a Presbyterian finds apologies in the Bible for illicit conduct, [208]
• Milton favors polygamy;
  • his domestic tyranny, [176], [177]
• Mitakshara, the Compiler of, [14]
• Monogamy woman’s doctrine, [188]
• Morganatic marriage, [162], [163]
• Moses, [9], [17]
• Mother-rule, [8], [10], [13]
• Moors of Spain, [30];
  • Mohammedan learning keeps one corner of Europe bright, [30]
• Most pronounced doctrine of the Church, [30]
• Mormons, [77], [92], [93]
• Mormon, First Presidency of, [181];
  • polygamists become gods at death, [183];
  • theocracy, [185];
  • woman’s salvation depends on polygamy, [185];
  • trained under orthodox Christianity, [186];
  • Priesthood, [188];
  • working for a temporal kingdom; President Elliott of Harvard favorably compares Mormons and Puritans, [179]
• Mormonism, Bishop Lunt defends, [186];
  • Rev. P. C. Lyford on, [187];
  • claims of President John Taylor, [190];
  • Helen H. Jackson on, [184]
• Mortality among infants and children, [197], [198], [200]
• Mott, Lucretia, [209], [210], [212], [241]
• Mund, The Mundium, [93], [131], [152]
• Mysterious interchange of germs, [86]
  
• Nairs, The, under Matriarchal rule, [11]
• “Name, The Lost,” [109]
• Nation, The N.Y., [206]
• National Reform Association, [189], [230], [232]
• National Reformer, (London), [284]
• National Woman Suffrage Memorial, [149]
• Neferhotep, Princess, a priestess, [17]
• Neith the Victorious, mother of gods and men, [9], [17]
• Nekrasof, a Russian poet, [167]
• New Delta, (N.O.), [268]
• News, Daily; The (London), [262], [263], [266]
• Nihilism, its cause, [82], [167]
• Non-consent, not impair validity of marriage, [133]
• Notable consequences follow the establishment of Celibacy as a dogma of the church, [36]
  
• Odelstling, The, [283]
• Olga, Czarina, her policy of 800 years since, controls Europe to-day, [164]
• Old women, hatred of, [117], [196]
• “Only by sinning can sin be quelled,” [208], [257]
• Open Court, The, [250]
• Opposite teachings on marriage by the church, [33]
• Oracles, ancient, from lips of a Priestess, [18]
• Original Sin, woman the original sinner, [64], [65]
• Otto, Cardinal, [35]; Ottoborn, Cardinal Legate, Institutions of, [35], [36]
• Outlawry, Scandinavian, [20], [160]
• Owens, Caroline, her experience in polygamy, [182]
• Ownership of property;
  • its remarkable effects, [159]
• Oxford Library, [17], [26]
  
• Pacinian Corpuscles, The, [101], [102]
• Paraclete, Convent of the, [31], [32]
• Palladium, The, in woman’s charge, [19]
• Pall Mall Gazette, [70], [83], [84], [268]
• Panim Ivan, on Russian wives, [166]
• Parthenon, the Temple of the Virgins, [19]
• Paramount Council of the Zunis, [10]
• Patriachate, The, [11], [21], [37], [54], [194], [237]
• Paul, St., the first Jesuit, [26];
  • a married man, [26];
  • as a persecutor, salutes woman with a “holy kiss,” [26];
  • St. Paul, [25], [27], [35], [36], [41]
• Pastoral Letter of General Association Congregationalists of Massachusetts, [210], [211]
• Pastoral Lenten of Rt. Rev. Cleveland A. Coxe, [218]
• Peculiars, Woman’s Three, [159]
• Penetralia, The, its secrets still unknown, [19]
• Pentegram, The, key of the Two Worlds, [101]
• Personal Rights Journal (Eng), [171]
• Pestilence caused by Christian wars and persecutions, [125]
• Peter the Great, head of the Greek church, his liaisons, [27]
• Petit treason, the crime of, [136], [137], [154]
• Petrouville, The Abbess, [255]
• Pharaoh, [9], [17]
• Phtha, Temple of, [18]
• “Pilgrim Fathers, The,” [102], [123]
• Polygamy, Christian, [175];
  • first synod of the Reformation to sustain, [175];
  • “Dialogues in favor of”, [177];
  • American Board of Foreign Missions sustains, [177];
  • Missionary conference in Calcutta sustains, [178];
  • endorsed as not contrary to the Bible, [179];
  • of Charlemagne, [175];
  • Valentinian laws favoring, [175];
  • Luther sustains from the Bible, [175];
  • Melancthon, Bucer and other early “Reformers” sustain, [175];
  • Milton sustains, [176];
  • Lord Seldon sustains, [176];
  • Bishop Burnet sustains, [176];
  • Rev. John Lyser sustains; Rev. Dr. Madden sustains, [177];
  • Wm. Ellery Channing saw no prohibition in the New Testament, [177];
  • Henry Ward Beecher quotes Milton, [177];
  • “God endorses” “Bible favors”, [178];
  • Rev. David O. Allen of American Board on, [179];
  • Dora Young on, [182];
  • Caroline Owen’s experience, [182], [183];
  • Helen H. Jackson on, [184];
  • its silent woes, [182];
  • women slaves under; Mormons claim countenanced by the New Testament, [187];
  • claim Christ as sustaining, [186]
• Pope Anastatius III, [255];
  • Benedict IX, [108];
  • Boniface IX, [25];
  • Gregory XV, [42];
  • Gregory XVI, [46];
  • Honorius, [33];
  • Innocent III [36];
  • John X, [255];
  • John XI, [255];
  • John XIII, [258];
  • Leo IX, [33];
  • Leo XIII, [64];
  • Paul IV, [42];
  • Pelagius II, [36], [255];
  • Pius IX, [31], [46], [64];
  • Sergius III, [255];
  • Sixtus III, [257];
  • Sixtus IV, [68];
  • Sixtus V, [35];
  • Sylvester II, [108];
  • Pope of the Hebrews, [64]
• “Poet, The of Chivalry,” [51]
• Potent Mother Goddess, [16]
• President Cleveland sends a gift to Pope Leo XIII, [280]
• President Cleveland, Memorial to, [149], [150]
• Press, The (Philadelphia), [201]
• Prices paid for torturing criminals, [115], [116]
• “Principal Women of the Six Nations,” [10]
• Property the test condition of a nation, [62]
• Protective Chicago Agency for women and children, [145]
• Puritans The, Puritan Fathers, [27], [106], [122]
  
• “Queen’s Women,” [77], [81]
  
• Record, The (Boston), [178]
• Redemption of Blood, [74]
• Reformation;
  • its rules for women, [63]
• Refuge, no for woman, [125]
• “Reichbote Der” Berlin, [197]
• Rameses II; Rameses III, [18]
• Recorder, the Methodist, [226]
• Republican, the St. Louis, [279]
• Republican, the Washington, [285]
• Rev. Nehemiah Adams, author of Pastoral Letter, [211];
  • Rev. Dr. Ballantine, See Trial, [215];
  • Henry Ward Beecher, [177];
  • Edw. Beecher, Father Bodfisch, [230];
  • Dr. Buckley, [225], [228];
  • Thos. Bowman, Rt. Rev. Cleveland A. Coxe, [215], [254];
  • Robert Laird Collyer, Wm. Ellery Channing, Athenase Coquerel, Dr. Craven, [214], [215], [254];
  • Crummel Alexander, [222];
  • Cuyler Theodore L., [213];
  • Davidson (Evangelist) [87];
  • Day, J. R., [228];
  • Denhurst, Mr., [215];
  • Dilke, S. W., [224];
  • Dix, Dr. Lenten Sermons against women, [216], [217], [233];
  • Douglas, David, “Wife, why dost thou weep?” [208];
  • Gray (Chaplain) [209];
  • Dr. Gouldbourne, [233];
  • Gray, Geo. Zabriskie, D. D., [219];
  • Healy, Bishop, [235];
  • Huntington, Rev., [286];
  • Hurlburt, E. B., [224];
  • Kingsley, Charles (Canon), [65];
  • Little, Dr. Charles, [234];
  • Little-Knox, [220];
  • Liddon (Canon), [233];
  • Lyser, John, Littlejohn Dr., “Triennial Charge,” [233];
  • Merrell (Bishop), [227];
  • Moody, (Evangelist), [242];
  • Neeley, F. B., [229];
  • Patten, D. D., W. W., [215];
  • Rothmeiler, Jacob, [228];
  • See, Dr. Isaac, his trial, [254], [214];
  • Sherman A., [216];
  • Smith, Few, [215];
  • Strong, Dr., President Baptist Theological Sem. [210];
  • Tallmage, T. DeWitt, [86], [220];
  • Tinsey, Thomas, [229];
  • Turnstall, W. V., [223], [227], [233];
  • Upham, Charles W.;
  • Willis, Samuel Joseph, offers £100 reward for his wife’s return to him;
  • Wiley, John, President Drew University, [227];
  • Wilson, Mr., [215]
• Review, the Louisiana, [268]
• Rights divided, [52]
• Ritualistic Episcopal church, [48], [49]
• Rome, Romans, Roman Empire, [16], [18], [19], [28], [30], [37], [50], [60], [163]
• Russian Bride’s Lament, The, [167]
  
• Sab, Saba, Sabasius, [103]
• Sabbat, [12], [103], [111]
• Sabbath, [12], [28];
  • to go to, [94], [96], [103], [112]
• Sacred songs of Isis, [17];
  • Sistrum, The Sacred, [17];
  • Sacred Scribes, [17]
• Sacrilegious child, [59], [64], [69], [223]
• Sacraments, The Seven, [93]
• Sacrifice of animal passions, [21]
• Sacrifice of milk, [17]
• Sadagora, “Pope of the Hebrews”, [64]
• Sagas of Iceland, [161]
• Sages, [104]
• Sagthing, The, [164]
• Sainio, Mrs., her crime of petit treason;
  • hand cut off [note 39];
  • decapitated [note 39];
  • body burnt, September 1892 [note 39]
• Sala, a house, [151];
  • Salic law a penal code, [151], [218]
• Samokversof, [164]
• Scandinavians, [20], [151], [160], [161]
• Scarlet Letter of Shame, [146]
• Sclavs, [11]
• Scold’s Bridle, The, [142], [146]
• Scold’s, law for punishment of, [147]
• Seeress of Prevorst, [102], [274]
• See Trial, [214]
• Seigneural tenure in Canada, [76]
• Seldon, Lord, “The Light of England,” [55], [176]
• Self-development the first duty of life, [239]
• Sermons on women, [214]
• Service of Love, [260], [261]
• Sentinel, Indianapolis, [285], [286]
• Seven Evidences of possession, [101]
• Shadee, Agamini, [13], [14]
• Shrine, Delphian, the Pythia its priestess, [18]
• Sibyls, Sibyline books, [18], [21]
• Sin killed by sin, [41], [208]
• Sin-offering demanded from mother, [28]
• Sister, wife’s not related to husband, [218], [219]
• Slavs, Slavonians, [164], [165], [166], [167]
• Sod, [252]
• Soma, a body, representing man, [12]
• Songs, Witch, [95]
• Songs, Russian Bride’s Lamentation, [167]
• Souls, women no; no reason, [27]
• Spencer, Herbert, [161], [280]
• Spirit, the Holy is feminine, [22], [23]
• Spiritual Courts, [51]
• Standard, Daily, Syracuse, [262]
• Standard, The Woman’s, [269]
• Statute of Uniformity in religious opinions, [113]
• Stridham, a woman’s property, [15]
• Stindberg’s “Giftas” prohibited, [164];
  • escapes imprisonment by flight, [164];
  • ovation upon his return, [164]
• Stool, the Penitence for women, [146]
• St. Thomas Aquinas on celibacy, [35]
• St. Paphinutius, the martyr Bishop of Thebes, on celibacy, [35];
  • St. Dunstan, famed for his hatred of women, [26];
  • St. Theresa founded the Barefoot Carmelites, [251]
• Strothing, The, [164]
• Story, A of To-day, [71]
• Succubi, Succubus, [108]
• Suicide, women driven to, [98]
• Sultan of Egypt on Christianity, [132]
• Summary of Solicitations, [42]
• Sun, The New York, [47], [70], [173], [269]
• Swrya, the Sun the source of life: woman represented by among the ancient Aryans, [12]
• Synod, American, the first to try a woman for heresy, [124];
  • of Elvira, [50];
  • Four, [253];
  • of New Jersey, to try Rev. Isaac See for admitting women to his pulpit, [214], [215];
  • of Paris, [50];
  • first of Reformation to sustain polygamy, [175];
  • of Winchester, [26]
• Syros, i.e., God, [18]
• Syracuse, N.Y., [10], [85], [87], [88], [257]
  
• Talmud, the, on cleansings for women, [254]
• Terre Haute, (Ind.) Mail, [142]
• Telegraph, (London), [138]
• Tetzel the great seller of indulgences;
  • his remark, [29]
• Thotmes III, preceded by Hatasu, in worship, [17]
• Three Persons in Heaven balanced by Three Persons in Hell, [108]
• Times, The London, [262]
• Times, The Philadelphia, [220]
• Times, The Bismark, [279]
• Toledo Bee, the, [140]
• Traffic in young girls, [84], [85], [90]
• Transcript, The Boston, [182]
• Tribune, The New York, [242], [262], [263], [266]
• Tribune, The Woman’s, [241]
• Truth, London, [233]
• Twelve Tables, law of, [20], [98]
  
• Uncleanliness attributed to women, [28]
• Union Labor Journal, [269]
• Uniate Greek Church, [46]
• Usus, [97], [98], [99]
  
• Vasist ha, [13]
• Vayu, the swiftest of the gods, [12]
• Veda, Vidya, [12], [13], [15], [103]
• Vestal Virgins, the, [19], [20], [96]
• Venice defies the Inquisition, [110]
• Victoria, “Mother of Camps,” [152]
• Victoria, Queen, [64]
• Victims of Priests, [41]
• Vidma, [103]
• Virgins, Temple of the, [20]
• Vjedma, [103]
• Vladimir, Cazar the, [166]
• Vritra, a demon, [12]
  
• Walker’s American Law, [153]
• “Walker, Lucy Case,” the celebrated, [139], [141]
• Wales, Welch, [233]
• Walnut tree of Benevento, [273]
• Walpurgis Night, [103], [112]
• West End, its vices, [84]
• Westminster Review, [144]
• White Cross Society, [92]
• Widow, [12], [160], [275]
• Wife, “An unhallowed thing,” [257];
  • beating, [162], [166];
  • dragged by rope about neck, [127];
  • driven in harness, [166];
  • holds power, [170], [171], [172];
  • loses relationship to own family, [222];
  • not name child, [138];
  • not a person but a field;
  • no right in law, [138];
  • no right to teach children what husband does not believe, [139];
  • no right as against husband, no freehold in dower, [157];
  • payment for;
  • religion ordered by husband, [138];
  • to rear children as husband’s property, [139], [162];
  • sold as a cow, [132];
  • turning out of doors not cruelty, [170]
• Will, The, [101]
• Wir-Wissen, [103]
• Wives: advertising, [61], [170], [171];
  • beating; burning alive, [135], [136], [137];
  • burying alive, [166];
  • buying, [131], [132];
  • can steal from husbands, [137];
  • decapitating wives, [137];
  • drowning wives, [132];
  • flogging, [136];
  • husbands cannot steal from, [136];
  • husbands property;
  • not related to husband, [137];
  • property willed to mistress by husband, [136];
  • petit treason of, [136], [139];
  • sale of, [132];
  • sold as slaves to the church, [34], [35];
  • services due to husband, [137];
  • strangling, [132];
  • driven to suicide, [37]
• Witch;
  • bridle, [101], [117];
  • conventicles, dances, doctors, [104], [105];
  • discover anaesthetics, [104];
  • principles of Homeopathy, [104], [106];
  • Finders, [98];
  • Hammer, [97];
  • House, [123];
  • Inquisitors, [98];
  • marriage with devils, [108];
  • not look person in the face, [100];
  • Persecutors, Prickers, [96], [107];
  • punishment of, [108];
  • the profoundest thinker, [105];
  • torture, [115], [116];
  • trials, [119], [120], [127];
  • rules searching for marks, [107];
  • songs, [95];
  • Sabbat, [111];
  • Scotch burned; [99]
  • her son’s inhumanity; [99]
  • reputed flogged by son, [128];
  • a woman of superior knowledge, [102]
• Witches;
  • burnt, [112], [117], [118];
  • property forfeited, material used in burning, [115];
  • directions for discovery of, [122];
  • Witches, For, read “Women,” [127]
• Witchcraft, children of most tender years not escape, [100], [123];
  • to give up is to “give up the Bible,” [113];
  • indictment, form of, [126];
  • most distinguishing features of, [109];
  • most striking points, [112];
  • Three Notable things in regard to, [109];
  • in Mexico, [128];
  • New Jersey, [127];
  • New York, [127];
  • Indiana, [128];
  • Wisconsin, [127]
• Woman clothed with the Sun, [252];
  • counted among animals, [200];
  • degraded to the level of beasts, [198];
  • government interference in her work, [196];
  • her “curse”, [191], [196], [226];
  • imprisoned for religious opinions in United States, [90];
  • in underground labors, and children, [193], [194];
  • less pay than man for same work, [196], [199]; [201];
  • married, the only class of slaves left, [153];
  • naked baptized: rubbed in oil, [93];
  • primal priest on earth;
  • supreme as goddess, in heaven, [8];
  • performs the most repulsive labors;
  • pit of England, [21], [196];
  • punished for man’s crimes, [149];
  • severing the last link, [241];
  • sinfulness of, [165];
  • small value on her life, [165];
  • speech with forbidden, [29];
  • supreme wickedness of, subordinate to men in office, [176];
  • testimony not received, [62];
  • too impure to enter church, [25], [50];
  • milk, to kill a fowl, [165];
  • “The Wise,” [104];
  • whipped half nude with rawhide, [124];
  • with new-born babe at breast, [125];
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, [232];
  • Woman’s Journal (Boston), [268], [230];
  • Woman’s National Liberal League, [285];
  • Woman’s World, [282]
• Woman’s Work in Belgium, [200];
  • in England, [194];
  • France, [197];
  • Germany, [199];
  • Ireland, [195];
  • Indians among the, [202];
  • Montenegro, [200];
  • Rome, ancient, [207];
  • Russia, [200];
  • Samoa, [134];
  • Sweden, [201];
  • Switzerland, [199];
  • United States, the, [196], [197], [201], [202], [203], [204], [205], [206];
  • Venice, [201]
• Women, abduction of, [159];
  • and girls reported missing, [90], [145];
  • babbling punishment of, [147];
  • baptized naked, [93];
  • burned alive for petit treason, [154];
  • as witches, buried alive, [154];
  • Bible, not to read, [154], [155];
  • the earliest doctors, [104], [192];
  • declared witches, [104];
  • drowned or burnt because of their knowledge, [105];
  • discovered anaesthetics, [104];
  • deputations of naked, [69];
  • driven to suicide, [98];
  • ducking, [147];
  • churching, [28], [218], [226];
  • classed among brutes without soul or reason, [27];
  • harnessed with asses, cows, dogs, [198], [199], [200];
  • hunted by blood-hounds, [88], [89];
  • impure, too to take the Sacrament, [25], [50];
  • in disgrace under the Commonwealth, [264];
  • legislated for as slaves, [153];
  • tongue nailed to tree for political opinion, [134];
  • “masterless,” [155], [158]
• Women’s English Suffrage Journal, [139], [148], [155]
  
• Zeus, [22]
• Znat, Anahara, [103]
• Zuni, [7], [10]10