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I will direct you to the sources without spelling it out.
My appreciation for the following sources to A. Grossman in his Hasidot U’Mordot,Jewish European Women in the Middle Ages ,Chapter 12 (Hebrew)
Pesachim 112. and 112:,and Rashi
Yerushalmi Shabbos 10:5
Sefer Chassidim Margolies, 1019, page 561
A. Yasif, Ben-Sira, page 40
Sefer HaZohar, B, pages 202-203