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[email protected]. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 15 19 Feminist Redemption of the Witch: Grimm and Michelet as Nineteenth- Century Models QINNA SHEN t is well-known that the witch was a cultural icon and an figure with which Western feminists identified during the second wave I women’s movement that started in the late 1960s. Activist feminist Witch Covens mushroomed in the United States after Robin Morgan and others founded the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH) on Halloween 1968. Literary theorization of the witch as the innocent victim of the Christian church and the patriarchal state, and reassertion of the witch as a woman with knowledge and power were the contention, for example, in the American suffragist Matilda Gage’s Woman, Church, and State, Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, as well as in the French journal Sorcières: Les Femmes Vivent and the West German feminist magazine Emma.