On that term...
.... thruought history and particularly in colonial America, the term/label of 'witch' was a conveniently placed label imposed on women to place them in a lower class. Some, as we know were burned so that they could be made 'examples' of.
Too late now, (and as an aside to the Pagan connection), but who knows how many inventions, scientific and even medicinal discoveries were lost or prevented to come about from those massacres.
Marcia