HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theistic Satanism, Folk Religion, Class Conflict
8 Mar 2017
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There is not one factor because the witchcraze combined approximately 110 thousand separate trials over 300 years. To heal, to find things: black magic: purpose was to spread harm and harnessed the power of the devil, diabolism devil worship. Definition: witches are people in a league with the devil. It was essentially satan at work in the world. Individuals must make a conscious decision to join, the devil was tempting. Images of people flying, kissing the de(cid:448)il(cid:859)s (cid:271)utt, se(cid:454)ual a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455), (cid:374)udit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:271)alis(cid:373) (cid:449)as prominent. It accounts for multiple accusations as there was a lot of people in the pictures: england only allowed torture for witchcraft, draws upon medieval depictions of heretical groups (recycling ideas) Sept. 18/13: witches got supernatural powers after the pact (ex. Gender: roughly 75% of all accused witches are women, witchcraft not a gendered crime in theory.
