Witchcraft DBQ (Many of the people who were persecuted as witches from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries were those of a seemingly inferior mindset‚ those who are blamed for problems in the community and those who were social outcasts.) This time period occurred throughout the Protestant‚ Catholic and Scientific revolutions. The victims of the witch trials were usually persecuted in Europe as a whole however focused on areas like South Western Europe. Witches were usually people who were
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There are many myths and misconceptions about Wicca or Witchcraft and Satanism that are often held by people of other faith based belief systems. If you go by some of the Evangelical Christians definition of a Satanist you are left with a very large percentage of the population being Satanist as only about 10% of the world’s population is Christian. They often think any religion that is not theirs has to be therefore a Satanist; hence Wicca or The Craft is thereby Satanic in nature. Wicca is a Nature
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Attitudes towards Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Scapegoat for Unusual Losses As a part of human nature‚ people tend to feel secure when they can explain an unexpected situation. In the 17th century‚ people had not yet possessed enough knowledge to explain as many natural phenomena as we do now‚ and that was probably when the concept “witchcraft” came in as an answer key to all unexplainable things. And‚ of course‚ with little knowledge about how “witchcraft” worked‚ people were generally afraid
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plants‚ crops‚ and animals. However‚ to offer misogyny as a leading explanation for witchcraft accusations would not be completely accurate. Although misogyny was affiliated with a minority of witchcraft accusations against women‚ that is not to say that males were excluded from such claims nor does it exclude the fact that many of the claims against the accused came from other females. For many‚ the idea of witchcraft was a means of explaining the unexpected nature of disease‚ death and it slowly trickled
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based upon groups of children being cast into the magical world of witchcraft and wizardry) we see witches as magical beings with spells‚ potions‚ wands and regular quidditch matches. We do not see these individuals as the awful and disgusting creatures that were exiled in the sixteenth century. Throughout the Elizabethan Era more than sixteen thousand men and women were prosecuted under the belief that they were practicing witchcraft or associating/worshiping the devil. William Shakespeare knew of
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The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 to 1693 was composed of a series of hearings as well as prosecutions of people‚ mostly young women‚ who were said to exhibit unusual behavior in Salem‚ Massachusetts. This behavior was classified as “witchcraft” and those who practiced it were claimed to be possessed by the devil. The idea began when a number of young girls started to take part in fortune-telling games‚ but the Puritan society on Massachusetts saw these abnormal events to be a sin‚ and decided
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The witchcraft trials of Salem was a hysteria that swept through the state of Massachusetts; that would change the whole demeanor of the town. It all began when a group of girl; once friends‚ turned delinquents accused a number of women of performing the devils magic causing them to be possessed. Over the time of a year there was an overwhelming amount of accusation of witchcraft. The governor sought out to create a new court‚ calling it the "court of oyer and terminer". In this court is where
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DBQ: Salem Witchcraft Trial Hysteria of 1692 In the 1600’s rumors of witchcraft spread throughout England and even more so in New England. Though punishing someone by death for practicing witchcraft was not unheard of‚ it was all but common; that is‚ until the year 1692 in Salem‚ Massachusetts. From the tenth of June to the twenty-second of September‚ twenty men and women were killed‚ all by hanging except one‚ because they were accused and convicted of practicing witchcraft; the convictions
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and soon residents were placing blame on one another and accusing each other of witchcraft. In a fifteen month period between 1691 and 1692 nearly twelve dozen people were accused of witchcraft in or near Salem (Norton‚ p8). Although witch trials were not uncommon in Puritanical New England‚ none had reached such epidemic proportions as Salem. In 1691 the mass hysteria began when several young girls dabbled in witchcraft and began acting strange. When villagers took notice the girls were seriously
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Historical Hysterias The Salem Witchcraft trials are notoriously known in history for its mass hysteria and paranoia within colonial Massachusetts during the 17th century. This paper will identify social and religious factors contributing to the Salem with-hunt‚ provide insight to who was behind it and why‚ and compare and contrast other examples of mass hysteria with that of the Salem witch-hunt. In colonial Massachusetts‚ the Puritan religion touched every aspect of line in the community. The
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