Reformation: Witch-mania • Texts : Jacques du Clercq : Mémoires p. 27-29 º PPP: Witch-hunters • Film: The Return of Martin Guerre (excerpts) 5. February 19 Quiz nº 2 (15 mn) * Demonomania : pros and contras • Texts : Bodin p. 30-32 – Boguet p. 33-35– De Lancre p. 36-38 Jean Wier p. 39-43 – Montaigne («Of Cripples») p. 44-48 Baruch Spinoza : The Non-Existence of the Devil p. 49 º PPP: From the Sabbat to the Stakes‚ history of a Witch * The great Witch Trials
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SALEM WITCH TRIALS! ♥ From June through September of 1692‚ nineteen people convicted of practicing witchcraft in Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials took place only in America‚ but the idea of witches has existed in many parts of the world. In Europe witches were believed to be anti-Christian‚ and to have sold his or her soul to the devil in order to obtain magical abilities‚ usually to harm others. However‚ witches in Africa and the West Indies involved concepts other than the devil. From the
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Salem Witch Trials In the years 1692 to 1693 there was an unruly and unjustified cause stirring in the air and surrounding areas in a colony in Massachusetts where more than two hundred innocent colonials were accused of practicing and holding events in the name of evil and in events in witchcraft and twenty were executed. Called the devil’s magic‚ witchcraft was being seen nothing other than one whom holds innocents and a grudge of one whom was innocent of this misjudgment. Most of the
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witch craft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials started in Salem in 1692 and after that they spread all over the world. Most towns thought that there was witch craft going on. The witch trials are an important historical event as it resulted in the deaths of dozens of innocent people.There are many different stories as to how witchcraft began‚some say it started in Salem .Other
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The 16th and 17th centuries experienced a great shift of ideals with the Reformation that contributed to the rise of witch-hunts. Although the Reformation is notorious for the disagreement between the Protestants and the Catholics‚ what both groups agreed on was that witches were to be punished for their evil deeds. The two major religious figures during this time were John Calvin and Martin Luther. These two men believed in non-clerical celibacy‚ and less stress on chastity before marriage. Now
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The notable children’s book‚ The Lion‚ the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis displays the consequences of faulty choices based on behavioral loyalty. In the mythical land of Narnia‚ four children‚ Peter‚ Susan‚ Edmund and Lucy are alleged to reign on the four great thrones of Narnia. However‚ this would mean the downfall of the White Witch. In order to stop the four children from obtaining the thrones‚ she tempts young‚ naïve Edmund. She
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The Salem Witch Trials began in Salem‚ Massachusetts; the massacres could have been caused‚ historians believe‚ by many reasons such as the seclusion of the village‚ sickness‚ and overall boredom. The trials have many mysteries surrounding them. Historians still cannot come up with one specific cause that caused the ordeal to happen in the first place. They do have‚ however‚ the basics of it with some of the mysteries thrown in. Many accounts of the Salem Witch Trials all have something in common
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Humans always pretend that people that are different from them are inferior. This is true in almost all historical events‚ as well as in everyday life. In the witch hunts of the 1640s and the Communist hunts of the 1950s‚ there were three main similarities: fear‚ blame‚ and power. Whether these differences be of race‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ political view‚ or any other personal difference‚ we all notice each other’s differences‚ consciously or subconsciously‚ and think and act on that as if it matters
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in Massachusetts‚ like a plague. This led to a series of hangings and accusations made by the Puritans. Many of these happenings occurred due to the Puritans strict beliefs on religion. The Salem Witch Trials could have been prevented if the Puritans were not so dependent on religion. The Salem Witch Trials took place in the small town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. The town was a very prosperous port‚ engaging in commerce‚ shipbuilding‚ and other activities. Salem was mainly occupied by European immigrants
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The witch hunts of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era expose a tendency to incriminate women. On average‚ ninety percent of the “witches” were female and the remaining men were often their relatives.1 This period can be referred to as a time of misogyny or an age when there was a strong suspicion of women.2 Villagers and aristocrats tended to view witches differently. Witches at the village level were thought to harm others through their maternal powers of nurture. Aristocrats denied that witches had
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