English colonists associated Indian savagery with female lust and witchcraft.

Evidence

These animal passions believed to govern the Indian and to be present in all human beings were also symbolized by the lust of women and the disorder wrought by the witch. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 557

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the settler-colonial/land thread of the eco-justice polyad; domination of Indians, women, and witch all linked. — connects to: English colonial ideology of savagery extended from the Irish to Africans and natives; Colonial peoples were naturalised alongside their land as savage nature to be tamed — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 404; Fear of female sexual power produced rare female Muslim monsters in the colonial era. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 413 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• English colonial ideology of savagery extended from the Irish to Africans and natives #expands (0.85)
• Colonial peoples were naturalised alongside their land as savage nature to be tamed #expands (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 404
• Anti-Turk attitudes shaped English views of Native Americans as savages #corroborates (0.80)
• Fear of female sexual power produced rare female Muslim monsters in the colonial era. #corroborates (0.78) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 413
• Colonial ‘scientific study’ projected the very savagery it claimed to find #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 887