Why were Midwives Targeted by the Catholic Inquisition?
Midwives were healers and authority figures of birthing knowledge. They carried a unique role of social and medical stature. They carried deep empirical knowledge of childbirth and herbal remedies and were trusted among the community to provide care and instruction in late medieval Europe. Their expertise consisted of reproductive knowledge, lactation, and neonatal care. Plants, charms, and traditional practices were available, as well as spiritual practices in addition to practical care.
Midwives found themselves in a gray zone due to the combination of medical, ritual, and magical elements. They were considered useful in the absence of a medical doctor operating in male-dominated hierarchies and sometimes would be susceptible to suspicion and accusation when the birthing process went wrong.
From Caregiver to “Witch”
From the late 1400s onward, the Catholic Church and secular authorities became increasingly inflated. They interpreted healing knowledge as sorcery, the use of traditional remedies as superstition or heresy, and the female agency outside male control that was a potential threat to orthodoxy.
Systems that valued orthodox religion and male-controlled medicine began to distrust female healers who did not hold authority positions. Midwives were accused of witchcraft for their extensive and generational knowledge.
Political and Social Control
Church authorities began to profile unregulated practices as hotbeds of dissent or heresy. A midwife’s trusted social status could be seen as a challenge to male clerical and medical control, especially where religious conformity was a priority. In one case, the Inquisition in Toledo perceived a community’s trust for midwives as a threat to ecclesiastical power.
Fringe Meta-Narrative (Big Picture)
Across esoteric blogs and alternative history forums, there’s a shared counter-history. Midwives were the custodians of forbidden biological, spiritual, and cosmological knowledge. The Inquisition was viewed as the enforcement arm for suppressing that knowledge. Midwives intersected with the church on issues like reproduction, wherein controlling the birth meant controlling the inheritance, lineage, labor, and population.
Women’s autonomy was framed as morally suspect and in need of supervision. Midwives were trusted more than priests in moments of birth, pain, and death, which indicated unlicensed authority. Midwives were present when it was thought that souls would enter the world, baptism was either delayed or improvised, and maternal decisions were made without clerical oversight.
So Why Midwives (Fringe View)
Midwives were the controllers of birth, and a key point of spiritual and political control. They oversaw reincarnation timing, soul entry, and bloodlines.
A similar pattern appears in the suppression of indigenous spiritual practice under colonial Catholic rule. Although indigenous peoples were often formally excluded from inquisition tribunals, ecclesiastical authorities still banned rituals, destroyed sacred texts, and punished spiritual leaders through parallel mechanisms. Practices involving ritual plants, ancestral rites, or non-Christian cosmologies were labeled idolatrous and systematically dismantled. The effect, regardless of legal technicalities, was the interruption of the continuity of natural practices.
(With these channelings, please take what resonates and leave the rest.)
Channelings from Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
When the Albigensian Crusade happened it was a moment of despair for the mothers and midwives being targeted for purposes that would allow the authority of the church to control the bloodlines of children. This would allow the church and other benefactors to remain in power. These bloodlines are quite unique and are often enriched with vast amounts of wealth that were contained within the family, so the blood of children was of great concern. The dark players knew they had to stop the organic process of birth so they could target children at younger ages to consolidate their blood and use it for purpose of sacrifice and power to satisfy their gods. This is a very sensitive topic we will discuss later.
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What Historical Evidence Exists of Inquisition Trials Against Midwives?
The formal goal of the Inquisition was to identify and punish heresy, which included practices thought to involve pacts with the “devil” or supernatural malice. Under the mandate that magic and sorcery would be treated as heretical offenses according to the Malleus Maleficarum (1486), which promoted the prosecution of witchcraft and reinforced the belief that women, particularly those with herbal and healing knowledge, were prone to such practices.
Social and Scientific “Norms”
The inquisitors often perceived themselves as custodians of religious and social order and that medicine and religion overlapped their area of authority. Practices that invoked beliefs outside of established orthodoxy, such as amulets and charms, were labeled superstition, casting suspicion on the women’s practices.
During the enforcement of orthodoxy and authority, the goals of the inquisitors included suppressing all practices labeled as witchcraft or superstition and enforcing conformity to sanctioned religious practices. Reasserting male clerical authority over spiritual and medical spheres. Controlling community-level knowledge that existed outside of the church structures.
Alternative Narratives
In some fringe interpretations, they often label the Inquisition as religious control under knowledge containment and bio-spiritual monopoly. Witchcraft paranoia was often associated with eliminating lineage knowledge and misogyny as a strategic targeting of female epistemology. Other interpretations were given in different terms, such as witch trials as knowledge purges, devil language as a symbolic code for non-Christian cosmology, and torture confessions as literal demonology.
All fringe narratives share a consistent theme of the church rooting out heresy and preserving the purity of doctrine while centralizing and eliminating competing knowledge systems. A bureaucratic system of control that consisted of interrogations, standardized accusations, and confessions under duress. “Witchcraft” was a term to criminalize female expertise.
Channelings from Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
The purpose of the targeting and burning of the midwives was to destroy the organic way of life and the blood of the mother which was vital for the child. The blood of the womb was important for children that were coming during that time to solidify their abilities and create the heaven on earth that was envisioned.
There have been numerous attempts to awaken humanity, which have backfired 7 times because of the dark players. The goal was control of the birth process so they could keep dividing the bloodlines by who gets to rule, and who gets to be poor or used as slaves. There are a multitude of ways in which humanity has been manipulated to believe that birth is sinful, and it also is moored in the belief of the Virgin Mary.
How Did This Affect Midwifery Then and Today?
Historically, in some regions, midwives had regulated status and formal recognition in communities. Later authorities under Philip II rescinded formal midwife regulation for nearly a century, weakening their autonomy. This undermined the institutional support for midwives that contributed to the loss of accredited training and legitimacy. It marginalized traditional knowledge, and male physicians took over areas previously dominated by women. Over time, midwifery shifted from a community-based female profession to one increasingly regulated under male-dominated institutions.
The long-term impact today is the stigmatization of female healers and the suppression of certain practices that were herbal and natural.
Alternative Narratives
Modern conspiracy narratives argue that obstetrics replaced midwifery to medicalize and commodify birth. C-sections and hospital births are claimed to disrupt natural soul anchoring, and the trauma at birth creates a more controllable population. The loss of ancestral feminine knowledge weakened humanity’s autonomy, and the long-term consequences mentioned were that women’s intuition and observation were dismissed as unscientific. Therefore, male-dominated medicine absorbed midwifery knowledge without credit.
Today, childbirth is often treated as a medical emergency rather than a physiological process, and midwifery has to justify itself against hospital protocols. Women are sometimes taught to distrust their bodies, leaving historical residue that was not by accident.
Channelings from Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
Midwifery today is institutionalized by big money, and it is primarily in the medical field of expertise, originating from the Catholic Church to every government, and into hospitals. A birth outside hospitals became taboo because the elite powers didn’t like births outside their control, so they consistently enforced propaganda to instill fear of birthing outside hospital care. What’s interesting is that midwifery has been a practice outside of historical contexts, and midwifery has extended out to families who wanted a pure birth that is not controlled by institutions and medical procedures, unless there is an emergency. They are hard to find, and they are worth looking at.
What Knowledge did Midwives have that was Viewed as Heretical?
Midwives had used herbal formulations and folk remedies like belladonna or ergot for pain management. They combined practical care with folk spirituality, prayers, and amulets that would ensure the success of the birthing process. They also had a deeper understanding of female bodies, fertility, childbirth patterns, and postpartum care that was often outside male-dominated medical curricula.
Caveats & Scholarly Nuance
The Catholic Inquisition did not target all midwives solely because they were midwives, but many prosecutions depended on specific accusations of sorcery. Some were well respected and consulted even by inquisitorial authorities in matters where their expertise was needed. The practice of witch trials and midwife persecution varied widely by region, time period, and local context.
Esoteric Claims
From a fringe perspective, the midwives carried forbidden biology that predated Christian reproductive science. Information based on endocrine and plant-based fertility modulation and “blood mysteries” related to menstruation and placenta rituals is also consistent. These ideas reflect earlier works like Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English’s Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (1973) While not fringe, it later became a reference for conspiratorial expansions. For further reading; (Witches, Midwives and Nurses (Print).pdf)
Fringe narratives also point how their knowledge of embodied spirituality and birth wisdom was associated with activating DNA strands connected to interdimensional inheritance. The Catholic Church was viewed to be serving the archonic agenda that would stifle the process of childbirth, which indicated an effort to suppress the process. Crucially, the knowledge women held was passed down orally and experimentally and practiced without clerical mediation.
From the church’s perspective, that was dangerous because it meant that they would not have control over reproduction outside of their authority. They did not favor women operating out of bounds who were managing life and death without priests that were not sanctioned by scripture or canon law.
Channelings from Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
The midwives carried knowledge about preserving DNA that was encoded in human souls before they were born to instill the planet’s ascension process. The ascension has been stalled many times, and the DNA that is currently being awakened only carries 2 strands that are fully awakened. There are many strands that are in the process of becoming one with light, and the light within humans is currently building to its full potential. The knowledge was of organic and natural ways for the human to enter the world, and therefore their hearts were pure from distortion and interference of synthetic chemicals and inflicted trauma.
The birth process has also changed due to industry standards and has had effects on the child’s energy, trauma, and physical injuries. These correlate with control and make a human obedient to authority. Trauma splits the psyche into different fragments; therefore, the dark players understand those fragments can be manipulated by forcing the child to be servants. slaves, or soldiers. Trauma in a person is very easy to inflict upon them, and that can affect the growth of a human and their ability to grow spiritually and technologically.
A Table of Fringe Claims Overlapping Historical Records
| Fringe Claim | Historical Record | Degree of Overlap | Notes |
| Midwives were disproportionately targeted | Some midwives were prosecuted, but not universally | ⚠️ Partial | Midwives appear in witch trial records, but most accused women were not midwives |
| Midwives controlled fertility & abortion | Herbal knowledge of contraception/abortifacients documented | ✅ Strong | Church law explicitly condemned abortion & infanticide |
| Midwives threatened Church control over birth | Midwives performed emergency baptisms | ✅ Strong | The church regulated midwives tightly because of baptism |
| Male physicians displaced midwives | Documented medical professionalization (16th–18th c.) | ✅ Strong | Universities excluded women |
| Midwives held ancient pre-Christian knowledge | Folk practices predated Christianity | ⚠️ Partial | True culturally, not evidence of secret global system |
| Inquisition = population control apparatus | Church concerned with morality & orthodoxy | ⚠️ Partial | Control existed, but not on a modern conspiracy scale |
| Suppression of female knowledge continues today | Medicalization of birth is real | ⚠️ Partial | The cause is institutional, not cosmic |
What Voyagers II Says
The claim that advanced multidimensional DNA was passed down through ancient priesthoods and “Guardian Alliances” is another document related to the subject. The Vatican was portrayed as the gatekeeper of knowledge, and female bodies were described as biological portals for dimensional consciousness. Controlling the birth and DNA activation was central to planetary control in the eyes of archons.
The Voyagers points out very interesting points about “Keylontic Science” encoded in the body. Esoteric sources also point to the suppression of womb-based spiritual technology and the replacement of birth rites with sacramental control. This allowed whatever terms they used for the dark players to inflict trauma-based fragmentation of human DNA consciousness. Yet none of these claims are supported by empirical science, but they are internally coherent with esoteric cosmology. For further reading: What Really Happened to the Keylontic Science Movement
Important Boundary Note
From what I’ve mentioned above, none are supported by inquisitorial records, peer-reviewed consensus, or medical and biological science. They are, however, influential in alternative spiritual communities and persistent across decades of conspiracy literature.
What is the Difference between Male Training vs Midwifery?
In early medieval Europe, the education pathway for medical training was acquired in universities in Paris, Bologna, and Padua. Understanding Latin was required, and the structure was based on Aristotle and the humoral theory. Clerics would overlap with many physicians in holy orders and were rarely present at the time of childbirth. Their expertise was theoretical, and they were forbidden from intimate contact with women. They relied on second-hand reports for knowing about childbirths and classical texts that were sourced from church authority.
Midwife Training Experience
Training for midwifery consisted of being an apprentice with another midwife and learning about the process. It was experimental with embodied practices; Knowledge was orally transmitted within community boundaries. Their core skills required managing labor, turning breech babies, providing postpartum care, and neonatal survival. They sourced their experience via results and communal validation.
The conflict here is that midwifery meant embodied autonomy, while male medicine came from textual authority. Midwifery was observational, rational, and centered on living bodies that were adapted to individual women. The biggest difference is that male physicians gained authority through institutions, and midwives accumulated status through trust and results.
Channelings from Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
Pregnant women’s bodies are particularly vulnerable, which makes it easy for satanic forces to cause trauma to both the mother and child. As a result, they are susceptible to the elite’s control and to establishments that regulate childbirth and administer drugs that are incompatible with the human frequency. The institutions have developed numerous methods to destabilize the process of birth so they can easily maintain order that was in their favor. Because natural births are uncommon, humanity has easily been funneled into the institutions that control the birthing process.
The difference is the synthetic vs organic birth process. Back in the 1400s, the process was mostly natural, and midwifery was a way for women to bond with one another, and children would sense that organic quality and form a loving relationship with their mother and communities, but the interference of the dark players who have manipulated the child’s growth was to consolidate the power of the child’s energetic frequencies.
Which Groups of Midwives were Targeted?
It has been academically documented that midwives were more likely to be accused based on their actions and their age.
An elderly woman was perceived to hold accumulated knowledge. Midwives were associated with infant deaths and operating unlicensed or outside of church oversight. Practicing fertility management, or folk rituals, alongside care. And the socially marginal, including the widowed, poor, and outsiders. Unmarried women and rural healers with outspoken independence were mostly targeted.
Women were less likely to be accused if they were licensed by church authorities and publicly orthodox and were supported by elite families. The idea of a blanket purge is not supported by academics but confirms selective vulnerability. During that time, women were vulnerable because they lacked male protection and stood outside family hierarchies that held memory and continuity. Accusations were often social weapons of jealousy, land disputes, community tensions, and misogyny cloaked in theology.
Channelings of Mary Magdalen & Yeshua:
Pagans and indigenous people were among the victims of the inquisition. The druids were also targeted by the Roman Empire. The fact of the matter is the most vulnerable women were mostly targeted because they held the key to the future, and that was the main target of the Catholic Church back then. Any outside process of birth was targeted solely for controlling the birth process.
Women, children, and men were also targeted because they deviated away from church authorities and were killed in the millions. The number of statistics is much larger than what they are telling you on the internet and in historical records. the organic and natural way of any outside practice was meant to be feared in a way that humans would not venture into that space.
A Deeper Pattern
The witch trials were not about midwives, but about who was allowed to interpret life. Birth is unpredictable, embodied, mysterious, and relational. Institutions would prefer to codify, standardize, and regulate the birth process. Midwives represented a way that was not easily governed, so it was labeled as witchcraft or heresy.
A Religious Perspective
In Western Catholic Christianity, birth is viewed as a theological danger zone, presuming unbaptized infants, and Midwives are regulated to ensure baptism. The fears are mostly acquainted with infanticide, secret abortion, and non-sacramental rites.
From a fringe interpretation, the church was monopolizing souls at birth, and baptism meant spiritual ownership. Midwives outside the Catholic Orthodox threatened their sacramental control, and the danger was bypassing divine hierarchy and treating life as manageable rather than providential. It’s not to say that midwives were evil but disordered and unregulated. This perspective poses several contradictions that are ironic. Western Christianity venerates Mary and distrusts women managing birth.
Eastern Christianity and non-Western traditions carried less intense witch-hunting and were more tolerant of folk healers and midwives, who were integrated into religious life. In some fringe interpretations, the east preserved older womb mysteries, and the west became authoritarian and suppressive.
The Spiritual Perspective
Birth was interpreted as a liminal ritual across cultures, and midwives held ritual authority. Folk prayers and protective rites were common.
From a fringe perspective. Midwives were viewed as priestesses and embodied the anchoring of the soul as ceremony, but the loss of the sacred feminine disrupted humanity. Spiritually speaking, midwives represented a continuity of feminine wisdom that consisted of cyclical menstruation timing, intuitive decision-making, trust in bodily intelligence, and acceptance of life and death thresholds. These all contrast with salvation narratives and sin-based anthropology.
The suppression wasn’t political but symbolic in nature. Intuition was labeled dangerous, and the feminine was seen as deceptive. As a result, spiritual authority was externalized, and inner knowing replaced obedience and belief in central authority. Many modern movements are attempts to recover and heal what was lost and revive what was destroyed.
The Quantum Perspective
From an academic point of view, there are no studies supporting DNA activation or quantum mechanics associated with childbirth, but from a fringe perspective, trauma at birth meant the child was split into fragments of consciousness, and hospital births were believed to be disruptive in quantum coherence. Which brings up another point: ancient midwives knew about “frequency alignment.” I am not claiming that midwives used quantum physics but using quantum theory as a metaphor.
On the esoteric side, midwifery operated as decentralized intelligence with adaptive feedback loops, with observation noting the high sensitivity. This approach required a non-linear response to unique bodies. While institutions prefer predictability and control.
When we view this from an observer effect, midwives solely worked with attention and presence with the birth process. Noticing subtle physiological cues and attuning relations. These factors are now interpreted as pre-theoretical and recognized as placebo/nocebo effects and stress-mediated outcomes. Modern medicine may have eliminated what it couldn’t model compared to midwives.
The Galactic Perspective (Extraterrestrial)
In fringe cosmology, midwives managed star-seed incarnations and were able to manage the process that would reserve DNA interstellar codes. However, it is viewed that the Vatican has suppressed non-human origins to destabilize the ascension process of humanity.
Some frame this history as a struggle between hierarchical control systems where they are associated with negative extraterrestrials, which may symbolize extractive or authoritarian logic. The divine feminine symbolizes relational and regenerative intelligence that was decentralized and was related to life-centered intelligence. But this is not saying that midwives are targets of aliens; they are interpreted as symbols of life-sustaining intelligence that resist domination.
This interpretation resonates with some because it externalizes the loss of agency and intuition that was suppressed through inherited trauma across generations. It gives a language to many who are feeling that something organic and wise was overridden by something cold and controlling. When used wisely, it can help people process trauma that surfaces power dynamics and restore dignity to erased lineages of the Mother.
To some degree, the perspective may be seen as a mythopoetic interpretation rather than a literal assertion, unless proven otherwise.
Why Do Fringe Narratives About Midwives Persist?
These ideas explain real historical trauma that fractured female authority and the suppression of embodied wisdom. Male institutional dominance is often associated with governmental control over autonomy and medical alienation from birth. Stories based on alternative narratives can provide meaning, agency, and cosmic significance where history offers bureaucracy and contingency.
Key Takeaways
The targeting of midwives was largely because of their healing role and combined knowledge of spiritual elements and female agency, all of which fell outside medical and ecclesiastical control. The goals of the Inquisition were to officially suppress heresy and enforce religious conformity and social control over healthcare and spiritual practices. The impact today includes the marginalization of traditional female knowledge with institutionally regulated status. Herbal remedies and spiritual practices were sometimes viewed as superstition and witchcraft, just because they fell outside the religious boundaries that were sanctioned.
In fringe interpretations, the midwives are bio-spiritual engineers of preserving the natural way. The Inquisition enforced the epistemic monopoly that targeted female-encoded knowledge with deletion. As a result, modern medicine was the successor system of control.
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There are strong overlaps with reality that are institutional, where midwives were subordinated and knowledge became centralized under winning authority that moved from body to text and to institutions.
To hold this together, the persecution of midwives was about eliminating female authority over life, birth, and bodily knowledge. This still echoes today in medical, spiritual, and cultural instances.
When we look at this through different perspectives, one pattern is consistent: Midwifery represented autonomous, embodied authority, and systems of control cannot tolerate authority they do not regulate.
Labels that justified their cause from heresy to unscientific and dangerous, and the underlying threat was the same: knowledge that answers to life and birth was not compatible to not institutions.
Why This Still Matters Now
Echoes remain in how women are treated in medicine, the distrust of intuition, and the fear of embodied authority. The spiritual outsourcing that was centralized to control the process of birth. Understanding this history is not really about blaming who did what, but discerning which systems serve life, which systems serve control for dominance, and where balance is needed.
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