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    Heinrich Kramer. He was one of the (inquisitor of the Catholic Church) along with Jacob Sprenger. Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. It was submitted to the University on May 9‚ 1487 for endorsement. In 1490 this book was banned by Pope Paul IV. By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties‚ the Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches. It served as a guidebook and was designed

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    The three topics that reflected the colonial society included Bacon’s rebellion (1676)‚ Salem Witchcraft trails (1692)‚ and the Stono River Bridge Slave Rebellion (1739). All three rebellions/trials have reflected the views of tension in colonial society because they have reflected the issues of government‚ slavery‚ the citizens‚ and the transformation of culture. The Bacon Rebellion took place in Jamestown‚ Virginia in the year 1676‚ which was led by Virginia Settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon

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    trace its origins. The widespread witch craze in Europe is not a simplistic reaction as it is portrayed in the media but rather a build up of frustration at the political‚ social‚ and religious institutions throughout the continent. The idea of witchcraft in Europe‚ through a myriad of wars that fractioned society based upon belief‚ alongside support from the Catholic Church and misogynistic views surrounding the female body‚ caused a demon ideology to turn into a rampant and crazed fanaticism with

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    In the late spring of 1962 in a village name Salem a group of young girls claimed to possessed name such as the devil. These young girls accused some of the women’s from the village of doing witchcraft. There were also around 150 mans including the woman’s and children accused of witchcraft leading to nineteen men and women to be hanged. Three reasons why led this people to believe was “the teenage boredom”‚ the stimulation of imaginations of Tituba‚ and a belief that Satan was recruiting witches

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    "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman‚" written by Carol Knudson‚ is about the accusations of witches in New England during the 17th century. Knudson focused the book on the reasons why women were accused of being witches‚ and how they were punished. The government in New England seemed to point the finger at women who fit into two categories. "Most witches in New England were middle-aged or older women eligible for inheritances" (p. 117). The categories that Knudson focused most on were gender

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    Katherine Harrison- An Explanation Behind the Madness Although witchcraft is commonly associated with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692‚ there were also other trials throughout the century across colonial New England. It is important to look at some of these other trials also in order to see their cultural and historical impacts. The impacts are often overlooked because all of the attention tends to be put towards the Salem trials. One trial in particular‚ the 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison‚ is interesting

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    communities must have been laughing their butts off at how things run in Salem. It’ s like “where did you learn how to run a religious community? At the… toilet… church?” But Salem was an important lesson in how hysteria and hypocrisy can lead

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    In the book‚ Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer‚ many strange events happen in Stamford‚ Connecticut that cannot be explained. A seventeen year old maidservant named Katherine Branch has several fits that she claims to be the result of witchcraft. Many neighbors that have witnessed these fits think otherwise. Witches in the seventeenth century were mostly thought to be women‚ and Katherine says that these women are indeed witches. Escaping Salem contains a lot of information about seventeenth century

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    Everyone in the town of Salem‚ MA‚ is the definition of credulous. Everything that happens in this community doesn’t need any proof for why it is right or wrong‚ if it is said it is true. No questions asked. When the girls originally blamed witchcraft for the peculiar behavior of Betty Paris‚ nobody wanted to believe that it was anything else. This is the core reason why so many people were killed during the witch-hunts. Abigail Williams‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ and John Proctor were forever changed

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    The Azande people live between the longest river in the world‚ the Nile river‚ and the Congo river on a continental divide that separates the two drainage basins. This is located in Africa on the borders of Central African Republic and South Sudan. The area of land is fairly big at approximately 1‚200 miles long with many streams and different rivers running through‚ tall trees on the river banks‚ and much grass land. This divide was made 1885 when the Europeans created a boundary British influences

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