Ironically, the picture they've chosen to use is not one of pagan women, but a group of English church women. They're all Christian.

Would a Witch born on the Winter Solstice have anything special going for her?

It is funny if we are not going to recall that once upon a time, and not so distant time, they might be burned by mob, inflamed with a rhetoric of fanatics and obscurantists.

Would a Witch born on the Winter Solstice have anything special going for her?

There are some who would subscribe to that theory, but I personally don't believe that the Winter Solstice or any other time would bestow anything special on a person.