Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Karen Joy, author of the new Lost Soul, Wise Soul. Viva La Sorciére! Many women are now claiming their inner witch. In the past, witches were universally feared. Some historians estimate that up to 500,000 women, accused of witchcraft, were killed during previous centuries. As a past life regressionist, I don't doubt it. At least two dozen of my clients were marked in their past lives as being witches. None of these lives ended well. Almost all were burnt, hanged, drowned, or thrown off a cliff. But were they really witches? Most were simply herbalists who lived alone on the fringe of their villages. They had varying psychic abilities.