CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Burning Times, Burning Witch

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Witches were condemned as the crime of gender discrimination and sorcery. Their powers were seen as threats to churches. Witches were associated with death: wise women who practice religion, church condemned them as worshipers of the devil, their lost history is being reclaimed by a new generation, called witches. In our society, it is a symbol of evil. This is false: halloween was to remember them, the witch hat was a symbol of knowledge, cauldron was a symbol of life, renaissance witches. Rituals and celebrations were: pagans lived on a part of a land with ceremonies and religions that. Based on action, experience, and celebration: since christianity, beliefs were a way of life. Gods were saints: before the christians came, the pagans came to a church to worship a goddess statue deserved to die, witches were also counsellors. This was all suppressed because of: for thousands of years, women were considered physicians.