How come women with green eyes were considered witches? what year was this?

Question

Im facinated and interested in FINDING a women with green eyes? These old tales about them being convicted seems indignant, as for seeing them as goddess's I believe there doctrines. I have never seen anyone with green eyes from where I'm at out here in the U.S. of America. If you may; could you women with green eyes please email me or post a image photo with a close up shot of your eyes?

Answer 1

I'm a bit reluctant to post my face online but I do have a close up of my eye.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/687/eyeshape.jpg



Green eyes are quite common in the UK and I know several people with green eyes, all female and most had at least some Welsh or Irish heritage. For some reason green eyes are more frequently seen on women than they are on men.

My Great Grandfather was the only man I personally knew who had green eyes.



As for the whole witches thing, yes, green eyes were once considered a sign of a witch because they were so unusual and there were a whole other host of ideas about green eyes like a green-eyed baby being a changeling left by the fae, that all green-eyed people were untrustworthy, that green eyes were a sign you had made a pact with the Devil etc.

It was around the same time that they had the witch hunts where mobs would go out lynching suspected witches and dunking them in local ponds. The famous witch hunts were in the seventeenth century but it happened many times throughout history and began around the time that the Malleus Maleficarum was issued.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

Answer 2

Green Eyes Witches

Answer 3

1) How come women with green eyes were considered witches?



I have never heard such a legend. In ancient times, green eyes were *very* common in some regions of the world (e.g. Europe), and of course in Canada and America today they are very common as well.





2) Im facinated and interested in FINDING a women with green eyes?



They're everywhere in the U.S. Not as common as brown eyes, but almost as common as blue eyes.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/general-u-s/825456-eye-colors-america.html



Perhaps the legend about green-eyed women being witches originates in some part of the world where green eyes are much less common.





- Jim

Answer 4

Well, when I was little, I had blue, as I'm getting older they're turning greener. Green eyes, sometimes mean evil, or something like that, maybe that's why. Good luck on your mission.

Answer 5

i never heard this but I know that people did think redheads were witches green eyes mean envy like green eyed monster

Answer 6

I think they were considered witches, because Green eyes are very rare, probably more rare back then, too, and they are caused by mutations in the genes.

Answer 7

I,know, 3 woman that have "green" eyes.....I, think it's the long hair!.